Flame-a-Thon Site Launched
   
   Because of the recent GNOME vs. KDE flame wars happening on Slashdot, Usenet, and various
   mailing lists, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has launched a companion site to
   Slashdot called flame-a-thon.org.
   "I'm really getting sick of the mindless drivel being spouted everytime
   KDE or GNOME is mentioned," CmdrTaco explains, "That's why I've programmed
   Flame-a-Thon.  It's a forum designed solely for flame wars.  Now when
   somebody tries to start a flame war on Slashdot or another forum, someone
   can simply post 'Take your crap to flame-a-thon.org' and be done with it."
   
   Flame-a-thon.org is run off a different server from Slashdot.  It's
   hosted on a Alpha box running Debian Linux and Apache connected to the Net
   with three T3 lines.  "Flame-a-thon has better connectivity than
   Slashdot," CmdrTaco chuckles, "But it needs it.  Only a powerful Linux
   box can handle the load from flame wars where 500 message might
   be posted in under 10 minutes.  What the Net needs now is
   a Microsoft-Bash-a-Thon website."
   
   One Slashdot reader wasn't too enthusiastic about flame-a-thon.  He
   commented on Slashdot, "This is ludicrous.  Flame-a-thon is a joke.  Maybe
   it should be featured on the Humorix site."  Within minutes a flame war
   erupted in the Slashdot comments area.  "This is very ironic," one
   anonymous poster observed.