RE: AltaVista's Index is obsolete; but what about the others

Ted Sullivan (tsullivan@snowymtn.com)
Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:45:47 -0700

I think you are going to have to find a solution other then expecting
indexing sites to quickly re index your site as these processes are
mostly automatic. Besides if Alta Vista is out of date what about all
the others. There is not possibly enough time in a day for you to worry
about them.

Why not set up a page saying in effect this page has moved, have a
script catch all the moved pages and send back this special page and
then restrict indexing of this special page using your robots.txt file.
That way you have a permanent solution.

Ted Sullivan

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>From: Ian Samson[SMTP:ids@scrooge.hsrc.ac.za]
>Sent: Friday, July 19, 1996 9:51 AM
>To: robots@webcrawler.com
>Subject: AltaVista's Index is obsolete
>
>Hi. I write in the hope that the AltaVista's Webmaster will read this.
>I
>cannot find an e-mail address for the Webmaster of
>http://www.altavista.digital.com/ to inform them that numerous of my
>URLs
>have changed since their last index dated July 4, 1996.
>
>I am doing my best at getting automatic referral documents available on
>my
>servers but this obviously takes time and uses up unnecessary disk
>space.
>
>If anyone knows the AltaVista Webmaster, please send me his/her e-mail
>address. This is rather urgent as my error log is filling up, and some
>browsers must be getting frustrated when they get an error message
>rather
>than their hoped-for information.
>
>Thanks all.
>
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>Ian Samson
>Systems Development: Internet
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