Donating is a great idea. In fact, it's almost your sacred duty
if you derive a lot of benefit from this site. ;) However,
I haven't been experiencing the sorts of load times that you
are reporting. Are you sure the problem isn't network congestion
on your end? Before we got control over Nimda we had some
problems of that nature locally within our intranet. There
could be a number of others reasons why PerlMonks seems slow
to you that don't have anything directly to do with PerlMonks.
Comment on Re: Tortoise and Hare, or Trail of Beers
Pretty sure it's not Nimda... I try to keep away from IIS (and any M$ft stuff), and my router doesn't even flinch at the 200+ hits I get a day from Nimda'd and Code Red'd computers.