Re: [NTLK] Thanks for the input folks was Re: Contest at This Old Newt is over

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 02:07:04 PST


on 04-03-2003 10:55, Chris Searles at csearles_at_t-online.de wrote:

> Like I've got nothing better to do with my time than make "healthy use" of
> Google and TON archives to search for answers?

Which brings us back to Rich's original question, do we really want a
contest and in this case specifically, how much do we want to do for it.

> Besides, being able to perform a "healthy" search means BEING ABLE TO KNOW
> what to search for, i.e. as in my original statement, you have to be one of
> the "enlightened ones" in order to know where to start looking.

Not really true, I just entered the data from the question.
Like 'Was Steven Brown in the original Apple/Newton development team?' would
give you some data to enter in Google. 'Steven Brown Newton development'
would probably do the job.
I fail to see why everybody couldn't do this.

Robert Benschop

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