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> consider piping the list through shuf each time you try something new. You know why.

No, I don't know why. Can someone explain? (without being condescending, preferably)

It's not entirely clear to me either, though I would assume it's so that the first server in the list doesn't get constantly hammered by a hundred people going through the list sequentially.

hmm. Yeah that makes sense.

Would be better if they simply stated that instead of playing insinuation based guessing games.

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