[ale] 2 Ale'r's slashdotted in one day...

[Christopher Bergeron]

I actually met Malda at the ALS.  He was an arrogant ass.  I think his
"fame" has bloated his ego a bit too much.  Although, the media _is_ a point
of power...



-----Original Message-----
From: Vernard Martin [mailto:vernard at cc.gatech.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:40 AM
To: Christopher Bergeron
Cc: Ale
Subject: Re: [ale] 2 Ale'r's slashdotted in one day...


On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 23:40, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> I think that's worth celebrating!  Looks like Hirsch and I both got the
> treatment from the /. crowd today (Friday).  Hell, between the dashpc and
> Zapstation maybe the ATL can become a respectable linux "community".

Don't hold your breath. When the Annual Linux Showcase was being held in
Atlanta, we couldn't pay Slashdot to mention us on their board. We were
the only linux community run show in the continental US and got bubkus.

They gave us the excuse that if they announced our show then they would
have to start announcing everybody's conferences and forwarded us to
NewsForge.

Nevermind the fact that they announced LinuxWorld and the Ottawa Linux
Symposium each time they came around. I'm sure they had really good
reasons for that. Like that legendary journalistic integrity everybody
attributes to them.

But I'm not bitter :)

V


Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/
        "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. But Glory. Glory lasts forever."


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