From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30866 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnslashdot Date: 12 May 2000 12:27:08 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200005121549.RAA12175@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167343 10759 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:29:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:29:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA63ED0520 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB07134; Fri, 12 May 2000 11:32:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 12 May 2000 11:31:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11465 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 11:31:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from bkupmail.cv.net (bkupmail.cv.net [167.206.112.44]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296EED051F for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:32:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by bkupmail.cv.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA12732 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:34:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hunt108-151.optonline.net (hunt108-151.optonline.net [167.206.108.151]) by s1.optonline.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06200 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:32:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hunt108-151.optonline.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA03899; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:32:03 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ats set sender to ats@acm.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 17:49:04 +0200 (MET DST)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.6 Original-Lines: 17 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30866 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30866 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > I wonder if somebody tried to talk to them to get a different > interface than HTTP. I mean, they're not advertising, [...] Yes, they are advertising. There are banners at the top of every page, and they've been there for years. We are still talking about slashdot, right? (Actually, right now, they're not advertising or doing anything else, because they look down, from here at least.) -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! 182 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes, 32 seconds till we run away. Siskel and Ebert gave this tagline two thumbs up.