On Dec 04, Frank Copeland wrote: > Chris Lawrence wrote: > >On Dec 03, Frank Copeland wrote: > >> Robert Merkel wrote: > >> > > Like it or not, debian is an open project. > >> > > >> >In the conventional media, if the news doesn't come from a press > >> >release it's standard procedure for the person or organisation > >> >concerned to have the opportunity to comment before the story is > >> >published. > >> > >> Slashdot ain't the media, conventional or otherwise. Nobody published a > >> story. > > > >This isn't a story? > > > >http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/26/1450245&mode=thread > > Nope. It's someone starting a thread in a discussion group by forwarding a > message from another discussion group. It happens all the time in newsgroups > and mailing lists. Characterising Slashdot as "the media" and trying to put > the blame on them for not applying irrelevant journalistic standards is an > exercise in messenger-assassination.
Yes, but the top level of Slashdot isn't a "thread"; it's an article. And it is moderated, because only certain people can approve stories for the front page. This isn't the first time /. has gone off half-cocked, turning five lines of text into a flamefest. The people there need to start exercising some quality control on what they post, instead of jumping on the first message in a thread in a mailing list. Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Visit my home page! | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ | | | | | Debian Developer | Are you tired of politics as usual? | | http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.lp.org/ | =============================================================================