Subj : perl files for fidonet
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Russ Johnson
Date : Wed Jun 13 2001 02:00 pm

> Hey tony!
> Jun 11 11:38 01, tony summerfelt wrote to Maurice Kinal:
>> really? i read slashdot everyday, and they have a little freshmeat
>> listing...i'm always finding something handy, so i end up on the
>> sourceforge site at least once a day...
> Okay.  How could Fidonet duplicate that idea without causing much grief?
> Doable?  I think so.

I don't think so. Slashdot is a realtime conference site that many thousands of 
users visit per day. The reason fido can't duplicate that is the lag time 
between systems. Since slashdot is one site with many users connecting to it, 
there's no lag.

Russ

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