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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:56:54 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Subject:   Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)
Message-ID:  <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20040116081448.I78161-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
References:  <20040116160124.GF41788@over-yonder.net> <20040116081448.I78161-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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At 16:18 16/01/2004, Jamie Bowden wrote:
>I read it from the link off of Daemon News' Daily section.  If someone
>wants to /. it, you'll probably need to upgrade your connection for a few
>days, and add filters to your mail to screen the nastygrams you'll be sure
>to get from the shallow (and usually 14yo) end of the Linux Userbase Pool.

   I think the /. effect is overrated these days.  Network connections and
processors have gotten faster much more rapidly than the slashdot
readership has grown; the only time slashdot kills anything now is when
people use excessively dynamic pages.

Colin Percival




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