"A Fire..." and Anachronistic Commentary (Score 1)

The New York Times article doesn't mention this in its brief discussion of "A Fire Upon the Deep," but part of the story revolves around an old-school USENET-style galactic discussion forum/communications medium. It even successfully predicts something like email virii but falls short of predicting an M1/M2 scheme as good as Slashdot's. Kudos!