Re: Client Robot 'Ranjan'

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.edu)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:55:41 -0400


> What are the implications of the general public having a Webcrawler?
>
> http://www.TheArtMachine.com/ranjan.htm

not so different from the perl code that downloads a sub-web. ten tons of
traffic. so what else is new.

only more motivation to get whois++ or Common Indexing Protocol or whatever
working and accepted.

solution: produce and release code in your favorite language to support
CIP.

-john