[geeks] can't wait for Vista

Mon Nov 6 23:48:03 CST 2006

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:42:30PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:26:23PM -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> > this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
> 
> You do realize that putting something like this on a list that is
> publicly archived is rather stupid, no?

Or one that has at least one subsciber who uses a free because we 
"data mine" email service?

Before the USPTO got their online patent search database working, the best
one on the web was a free one provided as a public service by IBM. What
most users did not know is that they "data mined" the search requests.

Geoff.

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