Re: Social Responsibilities (was Safe Methods)

David Eichmann (eichmann@ricis.cl.uh.edu)
Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:19:45 -0500

At 7:36 PM 7/18/96, Randy Terbush wrote:
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-->I would also add that it is a shame that the responsible robot
-->owners aren't more outspoken about the effect that this "3rd group"
-->is having on the perception of the robot community as a whole.

Some of us have... But after a conference paper, various talks and a number
of telephone interviews with writers working on trade press pieces, I find
myself still reading the same hackneyed claims about "evil 'bots," etc.
The problem is that a well-behaved spider (to avoid for a moment the 'r'
word) just doesn't make for a good piece of hysterical journalism...

- Dave

p.s. It was also amusing to note the increase in indexing activity against
my server after my response to Kosta Tombras' request about cooperative
agent projects... Gee, guys - hadn't you already indexed that stuff? It's
been out there for months... ;-)

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