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MS Dirty Tricks Archive Trickles Back Online

Posted by kdawson on from the light-of-day dept.

networkBoy writes with word that The Register is following up its story about the Microsoft dirty tricks archive going offline. It appears that several individuals have the pieces to the puzzle and are looking for hosting resources. From the latter article: "The 3,000 document archive from the Comes antitrust trial, which disappeared from the web abruptly when Microsoft settled the case last week, is beginning to trickle back into view. A week ago the site was placed under password protection, Microsoft withdrew its own account of events, and so-called internet 'archive' archive.org apparently also pulled its mirror."

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  1. Trickle-me-this by djupedal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who but MS could find themselves in such a position, where all the dirt that's fit to spit just won't wash away yesterday's tears.

  2. mod down Thread Hijackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ever notice how more and more people are just replying to the first post with a completely off-topic comment? Moderators, please mod those people down (and mod this AC post up so people will know). It's about time we brought back some accountability into the discussion and enforced the generally accepted practice that if you reply to a post, you should be discussing the issues brought up by the post to which you reply. Everyone else can be modded to hell.

    1. Re:mod down Thread Hijackers by djupedal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      An AC, p'ist because he/she didn't get fp, whined: "you should be discussing the issues brought up by the post to which you reply. Everyone else can be modded to hell."

      To which I have to agree. Thus, the AC's (who is showing off their newbie-training wheels, since fp's used to be nothing but tripe) whine qualifies and down it goes...

      Funny...someone actually thinking that /. should be kept all clean and spanky. Not that I miss those days :)

    2. Re:mod down Thread Hijackers by networkBoy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      An AC, p'ist because he/she didn't get fp, whined: Well this is my first submission. So there :-)
      -nB
      --
      whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
    3. Re:mod down Thread Hijackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      First posts aren't inherently off-topic, but judging from what I've been seeing on metamod, as well as the above comment, not everyone seems to agree with me on that.

    4. Re:mod down Thread Hijackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      First posts aren't inherently off-topic... Boy, people are slow today. My comment was about "replying to the first post"... not "getting the first post". Do you understand the difference?
  3. YUO FAIL I)T by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    tBhe reaper BSD's move any equipment

  4. Just remember, noise about noise is just noise... by djupedal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ./ used to be 90% noise. Claiming that 'more and more people grab fp by such and such a manner' is pretty funny considering that most fp's were nothing but noise for so long. Really. The way things work now are much better, IMHO...but so much better that the past is forgotten? Wow... Wonder where those archives are.

    Just remember, noise about noise is just noise... Trying to play list-mother by posting about it says you long to be a police-person and carry a badge & gun so you too can push others around and get paid for it. Sit on your hands and let the mods take care of it, or you just add to the....noise.

  5. Re:Just remember, noise about noise is just noise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ./ used to be 90% noise. Claiming that 'more and more people grab fp by such and such a manner' is pretty funny considering that most fp's were nothing but noise for so long. See my other reply. This isn't about getting first post. This is about the leeches who find a post near the top of the page that someone else wrote (eg: *after* 50 comments have already been posted in an article), reply to it, and start discussing something totally unrelated to the post they're replying to because they know that if your post shows up near the top, you have a higher chance of getting moderated up than by just starting a new thread or finding an on-topic post to reply to.

    Quit being such an asshole with your "aahhhh... yep still got it" bullshit. Are you so narcissistic that you think this is all about you? The fact that I replied to your post is quite incidental and your subsequent posts demonstrate strange pathological behavior.
  6. Re:Just remember, noise about noise is just noise. by djupedal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look - don't you people see what's happening? /. is getting to be...respectable...? And with so many new 7 digit IDs - ouch. If this place is going mainstream it can only mean one thing. Up for sale. Sorry, two things...on the block AND time to find a new swamp.

    Anyone want to buy a sub-7 digit /. user ID?

  7. Troll by djupedal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bingo. FINALLY we have someone that knows how to play this stupid little game. So much better...

    Amen, Brother, and many thanks for helping show the light.

  8. YUO FAIL IT!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that hAs 7ost

  9. Frot5t pist!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    show that FrreBSD