Hi All,

Ten years ago today I sent out an email to about 30 people who said they'd
agree to be subscribed to a group on eGroups named WebIR
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/webir/message/1).

I was then a student and very enthusiastic about the new retrieval ideas of
hypertext and the old notions of citations all fusing into a new community
of interest. I still love links and hypertext and the smell of books, but I
want to close this list since WebIR is now mature enough and the list too
broad in scope (you need to see what I'm not allowing onto the list in
order to understand how the notion changed over the years).

I think my claim to fame is the coining of the term "Web IR" but I may be
wrong - still it's nice to think I contributed something.... +:o)

So, 10 years, 3 children, one job, and some other major life events later,
I'd like to send everyone a big thankyou. Thanks to those who are still
here 10 years later and to those who joined along the way.

Einat

P.S. I thought so hard what to write to you all that it is now the 29th...
so WebIR is 10 years and a day old. Good night.