Would it be that hard to email site owners a few hours in advance before each story runs? Slashdot stories are often already days late, so I don't think warning webmasters before the inevitable slashdotting would make much difference. Besides, you could just cache a copy of the page.
Yeah, yeah, there's all that BS about copyright concerns but it's never been a problem for Google or Coral Cache, has it? Mirroring material on Slashdot would cut out the middle man with virtually no risk of being bitched at for shutting down entire networks. Plus, mirroring content on Slashdot means that there's no chance for a webmaster to do a bait-and-switch with goatse or something like that.
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Would it be that hard to email site owners a few hours in advance before each story runs? Slashdot stories are often already days late, so I don't think warning webmasters before the inevitable slashdotting would make much difference. Besides, you could just cache a copy of the page.
Yeah, yeah, there's all that BS about copyright concerns but it's never been a problem for Google or Coral Cache, has it? Mirroring material on Slashdot would cut out the middle man with virtually no risk of being bitched at for shutting down entire networks. Plus, mirroring content on Slashdot means that there's no chance for a webmaster to do a bait-and-switch with goatse or something like that.