Dear Paul, Having had some of my own submissions both accepted and rejected, I offer these thoughts on your situation. First of all, Slashdot is primarily a news aggregator, and readers expect to see a link to what is affectionately called TFA, which few read anyway. But if there is no link, it is likely to be hosed down. The exception is the Ask Slashdot section, which caters to broader abstractions than the decision by MIT to quit answering ICMP requests, rightly or not.
If you really want to get this on the front page, I surmise that you need to communicate with the sysops at mit.edu and get them to publish an explanation for their action. You can then link to something. It'd be nice to just ask readers of /. a simple question, but unfortunately, glitz and controversy, along with FUD and muckraking seems to dominate the site. Best wishes in your quest. Rick --- On Mon, 10/5/09, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Flint <[email protected]> > Subject: Voting a slashdot out of the firehose > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 9:39 AM > Greetings List Lurkers, > > This issue seems important to me: > > http://slashdot.org/submission/1084305/The-ping-is-gone?art_pos=71 > > ...on the other hand, the good folks at Slashdot see things > differently. > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium > > _ > gratuitum .~. > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ > against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ > www.asciiribbon.org / \ > numerantur ^^-^^ >
