IP: Slashdot and counter-terrorism

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joe Greenseid <jgreenseid () mail wesleyan edu>
> To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
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> Seems that a little while ago, Jane's Intelligence Review was going to do
> a an article on cyberterrorism.  In order to get some "expert" critiquing
> of the article, the editors previewed it on Slashdot.  So many people said
> it was bad, and "had such intelligent things to say on the subject, that
> Jane's editors decided to trash the original piece and write a whole new
> one based entirely one [Slashdot posters'] comments."
>
> http://slashdot.org/features/99/10/07/120249.shtml