Please indicate in my message where I actually accused anyone of anything.
Also, please indicate where I mandated that the public CANT have anything.
Perhaps I was not clear enough for you to grasp my true question. I shall
restate it in simpler more concise terms.
This is a technical discussion of robots. As robot developers, in your
opinion, are robots efficient enough, and is the Web developed enough, that
the presense of a web-crawler on every PC on the Net does not pose a serious
problem to the Net in general. More specifically, with regards to bandwidth
and possibly even detrimental to the proper functioning of servers themselves.
At 10:29 AM 6/20/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>what are the implications of the general public having a Webcrawler?
>
>OH ya lets blame the public and say oh THEY cant have webcrawlers
>they wont know how to run them or work them, Gee IF the builders
>of the webcrawlers build them correctly to make it so there are little
>problems that can occur with said webcrawlers there will not be such
>a big problem as you perceive. Lets ask this what is the implications
>of every company out there having a webcrawler for there search engine
>that couldnt find its way out of a paper bag? I think there should
>be more work done in both areas both in a better search engine that
>can break down better requests for people and in better robots that
>are not out there doing stupid things like fetching the same document
>over and over because they did not test it thuraly on a closed site
>first. It does not take a rocket scientist to make a robot, but it
>do take time to make a good one.
>
>lets not look at what will happen when everyone will have one that
>is the same question people ask about every product, what will happen
>when everyone can own a car, oh no, the railroads will go out
>of business, what will happen when someone makes the first
>personal computer, oh no mainframes become obsolete.
>
>Kevin Hoogheem
>
Brenden Portolese
Internet Services Specialist
Bellevue Community College
bportole@miller.edcc.ctc.edu