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Either a heck of a lot of people have suddenly decided to program in pascal or we are getting attacked by bots.. which is more likely.
The answer is 3 (well 42, but...)
Why are those the 2 only options?
Even just combining: bots/people and attack/non-attack gives 4 options.
And how to you define an attack? By the effect it actually has, or by the effect that is desired by the one doing it?
Because, if it is by the effect, then if there were that many people interested, their interest would be an attack. But if it is a matter of the indent, then bots (or people) may come for other reasons yet have that effect. And of course there are plenty more ways to define what counts as what ....
It's a bit like tourists in Venice (and other very popular destinations). They do cause problems. Yet you wouldn't call it an attack. Well, I wouldn't.
Anyway, while I don't know the background to this particular instance, in the past we had bots, but not with the aim of attacking. Actually with kind of something like interest. AI bots were simple coming to "learn". Which actually, if it weren't for the side effects wouldn't be automatically bad, since they could later provide the information to those seeking it, and that would further the cause of Pascal (keep it in the loop).
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