On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:33:14AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Well a lot of people have either physically (or at least temporarily > phsyically via a network share) excel and word documents on their > machines. So perhaps some form of distributed search engine would work > (at least in an open information utopia), so that when i sent a search > to the lan/wan, each machine would check their records and find out if > anyone had been working documents concerning "frozen orange juice" > recently, the documents and indeed authors might then be useful to me > if i was also working on the companies frozen orange juice futures > policies. Of course a lot of people may see this as Big Brother.
And provided the p2p network had well-defined boundaries - such as a company that all participants work for - there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I would welcome such a scheme, as it would stop idiots from emailing everyone@department to ask questions which could be trivially answered like that. It would stop me doing that too. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There is no sigmonster
