Sorry to take so long to reply, but I've been busy traveling and fighting a
nasty cold. Despite being on the list for more than a year, I didn't
realize it was quite so restricted. Perhaps it's that documentation that
fooled me... ;-)
I could have talked about what our announcements mean for developers, but I
really thought it inappropriate to do anything more than post a quick
summary and see if anyone wanted to follow up with discussion. I suspected
(or perhaps feared) that announcement of a commercial spider would lead to
some interesting developer discussions.
I'll resist (mostly) the temptation to talk about our agent products as a
solution to the volume of Usenet articles and e-mail messages... that would
be marketing ;-)
Nick