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From: Lesley Walker <delirium+>
Subject: Re: Need for a six degrees program
Date: 17 Aug 2003 23:30:47 +1200
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(Steve Hayes) wrote:
> May I suggest that instead of developing yet another genealogy
> program, since there are already more than enough of those,
> someone devise a "six degrees" program. This is where the real
> need seems to be.
>
> This is based on the proposition that everyone on earth is no
> more than six degrees of relationship away from anyone else. In
> other words, my wife's cousin's boss's dog's mother's owner's
> best friend's daughter knows me.

It's an interesting idea, but if I was designing it I'd hate to have
to figure out how to represent all those relationships in a database
and keep them consistent. The error-checking required would be truly
horrible.


Lesley Walker
Wellington, New Zealand
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