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From: Lawrence Sica <lomion@mac.com>
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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