Re: Notification protocol?

Tony Barry (Tony.Barry@anu.edu.au)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:55:10 +1100

At 16:20 96/11/12, Nick Arnett wrote:
>This opens the door for a new flavor of spamming, especially as agents are
>increasingly available to monitor new and changed documents -- spammers
>could submit ads repeatedly as "new" documents...
>
>Does anyone see any movement to make notification happen? What would it take?

So you don't have to notify all robots it has to be local - maybe a file at
root level "updated.txt" which does something like the AFTP templates..

If it's absent you update the lot (and maybe make an assumption that the
server is not a serious player - whatever that means in terms of
consequences).

If it's there the site gains though less traffic and the robot gains also.

Spammers do what spammers do and you can't prevent it.

Tony

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