On Wed 16 Jun 2004 at 05:26:54 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:

> Dan Tapp wrote:
> >Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers:  Searching for the 
> >Best Scripting Language."
> 
> Up to now I thought that 'has been slashdotted' means 'site is down 
> due to severe overload resulting from being listed on slashdot' :->

That _is_ what it means. The connotation of 'posted about to Slashdot'
is much more recent.

Ian
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