Re: Unfriendly robot owner identified!

Andrew Leonard (aleonard@well.com)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 15:18:53 -0700 (PDT)


Hi, all.

I'm a reporter for Wired working on a story about bots, and I'm
personally following up on this NlightN robot episode. I've put a call
into their Reston VA headquarters asking to talk to someone about their
search robot, and I'll keep the list posted on whatever I find out.

Andrew Leonard
Wired Magazine

> Got 'em.
>
> Using whois, I found that the IP address belongs to Library Corp. in
> Virginia. They're the providers of the "NlightN" search service at:
>
> http://www.nlightn.com/
>
> Anybody know anything about their robot? I know that they've licensed the
> Lycos data.
>
> Their background information says, "NlightN, a division of The Library
> Corporation, was formed to develop and market a Universal Index to the
> world's electronically stored information."
>
> I guess their robot has to work fast to build a universal index... ;-)
>
> Nick
>
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