Re: Book about robots (was Re: Defenses against bad robots)

Eric Knight (knight@diversion.com)
Mon, 20 May 1996 08:04:24 -0700


>Internet Agents Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers,
>and Bots by Fah-Chun Cheong, New Riders Publishing, 1996.
>
>Is it good ? Is is of some interest for "advanced" robot writers ? For
>newbies ?

I would say it's worth getting if agents/robots are of very real interest
to you. It is certainly aimed more towards newbies and doesn't have a lot
of technical detail, but there are some interesting tidbits that even an
experienced Web crawler would enjoy, I think.

Eric