Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:22:55 -0500 From: Lawrence Sica <lomion@mac.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic) Message-ID: <C4AAC7AE-4861-11D8-A069-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca> References: <20040116160124.GF41788@over-yonder.net> <20040116081448.I78161-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Jan 16, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. > I have to disagree here. As I have been slashdotted in the recent past. It still has a serious affect. --Larry
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