Thread: Slashdot

Slashdot

From
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
Wow - I can't believe I was the first person to post about 7.4!

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/18/1741248&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=198

Chris



Re: Slashdot

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Chris,

> Wow - I can't believe I was the first person to post about 7.4!

You're the first person not to be rejected.  How did you do it?


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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


Re: Slashdot

From
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
>>Wow - I can't believe I was the first person to post about 7.4!
>
>
> You're the first person not to be rejected.  How did you do it?

Maybe I did it first, and then you guys got rejected cos of duplication?
  Maybe cos I just kept it simple?

Chris


Re: Slashdot

From
"Marc G. Fournier"
Date:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>
> >>Wow - I can't believe I was the first person to post about 7.4!
> >
> >
> > You're the first person not to be rejected.  How did you do it?
>
> Maybe I did it first, and then you guys got rejected cos of duplication?
>   Maybe cos I just kept it simple?

As I mentioned to you, I did it last night, and it had the same text that
is/was in yours *sigh*

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Re: Slashdot

From
elein
Date:
Is there anyway to find out who actually rejected your
message and why?  And why Chris' was subsequently accepted?
It seems really incomprehensible that our announcement
from you of all people was rejected in the first place.
We should try to find that out before we mention the
faux pas to other media.

--elein

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:31:24PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> >
> > >>Wow - I can't believe I was the first person to post about 7.4!
> > >
> > >
> > > You're the first person not to be rejected.  How did you do it?
> >
> > Maybe I did it first, and then you guys got rejected cos of duplication?
> >   Maybe cos I just kept it simple?
>
> As I mentioned to you, I did it last night, and it had the same text that
> is/was in yours *sigh*
>
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> Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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Re: Slashdot

From
Shridhar Daithankar
Date:
elein wrote:

> Is there anyway to find out who actually rejected your
> message and why?  And why Chris' was subsequently accepted?
> It seems really incomprehensible that our announcement
> from you of all people was rejected in the first place.
> We should try to find that out before we mention the
> faux pas to other media.

how about, "For next release, submit text 3 times"..:-)

Why bother with /. internals? Unless you know somebody out there personally, it
does not work AFAIK..

  Shridhar


Re: Slashdot

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Elein,

> how about, "For next release, submit text 3 times"..:-)
>
> Why bother with /. internals? Unless you know somebody out there
> personally, it does not work AFAIK..

Also remember that /. is an Opinion site, not news.   So they have the "right"
to accept or reject whatever they wish.  Based on timing, I think that Cowboy
Neal rejected the first two posts, but then the shift changed and Michael
accepted Chris' post.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

Re: Slashdot

From
Rod Taylor
Date:
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:30, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Elein,
>
> > how about, "For next release, submit text 3 times"..:-)
> >
> > Why bother with /. internals? Unless you know somebody out there
> > personally, it does not work AFAIK..
>
> Also remember that /. is an Opinion site, not news.   So they have the "right"
> to accept or reject whatever they wish.  Based on timing, I think that Cowboy
> Neal rejected the first two posts, but then the shift changed and Michael
> accepted Chris' post.

Yeah.. submit something enough times and it'll get through.