[techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

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as blogs go I think slashdot is quite good.. it's forums are also good
places to find mirrors to sites/info/etc that has been slashdoted or
otherwhise has been taken down.. and to occasionaly find related links...
I had thought of writting a slashdot url leacher that would grab every
forum entry that had a url and it's surrounding words (skipping the user's
URLs) however I still have projects I had put on hold for I think two
years now :).. so wait 10 years and maybe I'll write it :)


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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Brendan Coffey wrote:

> > >And slashdot is not "the Linux community."  Please.
> > 
> > I know that.  Tell Fred that (I did).
> > 
> I don't care to tell Fred anything.  ;-)
> 
> > Slashdot has done a great deal to harm the public image of Linux, if
> > you ask me.
> > 
> Agreed.  I don't even read it anymore.  I don't need to.
> 
> I've identified a phenomenon I call "slashdot proxying." This is
> the mechanism by which everyone in my social community of techies
> all ask me (generally within 15 minutes or so of each other), "Hey,
> did you hear on slashdot [insert slashdot anecdote]?" Thus, there's
> no reason for me to put up with the stupidity and inanity of
> slashdot.  I have an entire social infrastructure in place to put
> up with it FOR me.  ;-)  I just get the URLs and abstracts.
> 
> I once configured a /. account to do that for me, but I find it's
> more pleasant not to soil my browser with slashdot's HTML.
> 
> Now, EurekAlert is a techie news site worth reading.
> 
> -b
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