David,
Friday, March 21, 2003, 6:26:42 AM, you wrote:
DW> There is a reason these ideas keep getting proposed. The idea is solid.
Many ideas that are otherwise wonderful prove unworkable when they
must be applied to a working system. Many ideas that are otherwise
wonderful prove unworkable when they must be applied to a system with
a hundred million users.
Too often, ideas are evaluated on their basic appeal, rather than
their serious feasibility in terms of deployment and use within an
existing, large-scale service.
d/
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Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com>
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