Bob, this is the opposite problem from posting an entire article in HTML. You've provided no info beyond the subject line as to why I or anyone should look at slashdot. Slashdot puts out 10-12 articles a day; which one should I look at? At the very least, you could have given the URL for a specific article, as it is your uninformative link becomes even more useless as it rapidly ages. It's really not too hard to do the Right Thing; Here's an example from today's /.: ---------start example------------ http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/19/149227.shtml Judge Says Port Scanning Is Legal Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 19, @10:09AM from the thousands-of-lines-of-log-files dept. cvbear0 writes: "SecurityFocus has an article explaining a ruling from a U.S. district court ruling in Georgia about port scanning. The judge ruled that that port scanning tools neither "impair the integrity nor availability of the network." Both parties agreed not to appeal the judge's ruling." -----------end example--------------- ...that took me about 15 seconds - 1 click to get to the specific article (so I could easily get the article specific URL) and 2 cut-and-paste actions (one for the URL and one for the teaser text). If you won't show any common courtesy towards your intended audience, don't expect them to read your postings. Peter Trei
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