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For the first months (years?), it will be exclusive for hackers. Thus the curl approach to invites. Non-hackers wont get what curl is.


And those of us who cba to leave our browsers will quickly spoof our user agent and get an invite anyway.


I know that. It is merely a filter to get the right people, not a wall.


Being exclusive to hackers doesn't really help. Hackers still sometimes want to search for [espn]. You have to either drop a lot of web pages, or drop a lot of queries.




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