> 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.