Dave Winer has the answer to life, the universe, and everything sitting in his inbox and he’s not sharing;

Last night I got an email from someone I’ve been wanting to hear from for a long time. There’s a problem on the Internet, a big one, that only one entity can solve. The email outlined the solution and asked what I thought of it, and asked me not to say what it is publicly. I can live with that. I just want to mark this moment. A milestone. Real cooperation. I immediately implemented the feature on one of my sites. The same message was sent to a bunch of other people by the same person. I hope they did the same. When this is announced users everywhere will smile. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

This smells a bit like quake forecasting; I know the answer, but I can’t tell you when or where.

GNC seems to think that this person of the mysterious email is either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Personally, I think that the problem that Dave is speaking of is that the internet is not PERFECT QUADRIC TIME based, and that the email was from Gene Ray, proposing a way to split the internet into 4 perfect squares of time; that would make me smile. Hearing that Bill Gates was going to go RSS-crazy or open the source to Windows under the Creative Commons license, allowing derivitive works would surprise me, but it’s not really happy-making.

Come on, Dave; convince that Messiah to come forth.

Update: I have a feeling that I may have found the gist of this miraculous idea that Dave mentions at BlogDigger.