In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Blair P. Houghton wrote: >> >> But they do about 10 things totally wrong with Google groups that >> I'd've fixed in my spare time in my first week if they'd hired me back >> when I was interviewing with them. >> >> So if they want it to work, they know where to find me. > >Doesn't seem likely, does it? But don't let it stop you. You don't >need Google's permission to build a better Usenet service. They >don't have any copyright on the posts, or other special protection. >I'm a former Googler myself and I use their service all the time, >but if yours is better I'll switch.
The problem is the network effect. In this case, what Google has that can't be replicated is the history of posts. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
