..you’ll see in the lead to the piece that we were aware of this. It was causing us huge problems. But indeed you made the piece happen, because I also needed an outside source.”

So, it’s fine, I think, although Drew (Editor in Chief) seemed completely unaware of it when I emailed him to start with.

I guess therefore that they were aware, just not fully aware of it’s overall impact.

“Early last month, webmasters here at The Reg noticed an unexpected spike in our site traffic.”