I'm not a programmer and not (obviously) creating a robot. I have been
lurking the list and found enough of interest to remain a lurker, though I
doubt I will ever be able to contribute. The reason I am intruding is that
I am mostly interested in search engines from the point of view of an
end-user. I believe that one of the participants (can't find the message
off-hand) spoke of the need for a mailing list on using search engines for
research. I would be very interested in such a mailing list. So far, I have
been unable to find one (something recursive and ironic in being unable to
find a list on doing research using all the research tools I know).
My questions are: a) Does anyone know of a mailing list on using search
engines to do research? b) If no such list exists, is anyone besides me
interested in getting one going?
It seems to me that a succinct positive answer to a) would be worth posting
to the list. Answers to b) should probably be sent by private e-mail to me
so as not to further infuriate members of the list (if more than one, I'll
concatenate everyone for further discussion if need be).
I apologize for the intrusion and hope that y'all will not turn your
formidible flame cannons in this direction. I now return you to your
regularly scheduled esoteric discussions and flame wars.
Steve Kahn
Signatures suck