It's possible if there was so much load on the server (traffic from Slashdot?) he couldn't telnet in or open an FTP session to change the HTML. /. post: https:

It's possible if there was so much load on the server (traffic from Slashdot?) he couldn't telnet in or open an FTP session to change the HTML. /. post: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/10/21/0848202/risc-vs-cisc-in-the-post-risc-era https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/10/21/0848202/risc-vs-cis... 119 comments wasn't considered doing big numbers then. Note someone does call out the Cube issue. No upvotes. However, in this case it doesn't make much sense - he was changing the file anyway by putting in the "editor's note", with a lot of fancy formatting to boot. My guess is the author was being cute in writing an acknowledgement of the mistake rather than fixing it silently.