> Many companies block their employees from viewing such sites > as hotmail.com, > AIM, and games.msn.com in hopes to maintain some > productivity.. anyone > heard of a company blocking slashdot.org for the same reasons? :-) > > My guess is it dosnt happen because the people to set up the blocking > mechanizms are the ones viewing slashdot... much the same > way quake > servers happen to end up on unused machines in the back room > with static IP > addresses on fast internet connections... Pfft. What? I have no idea what you're talking about. Jeez. Now if you'll excuse me, it's 10:00am on Tuesday and it's routine that I transparent proxy all of the journalism and marketing dept's http traffic to http://www.seizurebots.com so I can actually get some work done the rest of the day.