If I'm not mistaken ActiveAgent is given a URL and treks off
from there through HREF's. That's my definition of a robot.
Web spiders do have some amount of human control. They
too are given a set of URLs to start with by humans,
by your logic are they not robots too?
Here are a couple of definitions that might be applicable:
A robot is any software that traverses hyperlinks in
a document without a specific corresponding action by a human
operator to do so.
A robot is any software which obtains objects beyond a page
specified by a human operator and it's respective embedded objects.
kim
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