Defying classification
What is Planet Apache? What is Technorati? These questions fascinate me.
Mailing list vs comments as a venue for dialog? To me, that's like comparing board meetings vs pubs for as venues for making business decisions.
I am told that using information at the IP layer to affect behaviour two layers up isn't going to work? And yet I run firewall programs filter outgoing connections based on the path of the main program which issued the request. Despite coming up with "perl.exe" for a fair number of commands, it does seem to catch a lot of spyware.
Classifications are so impossible, yet so darn useful.