robh
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response 25 of 27:
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Nov 24 20:19 UTC 1996 |
No, response 23 refers specifically to Webcrawlers, computer programs
that wander the Web looking for new pages. Since these programs
cannot access pages that are generated with CGI, and since Backtalk
uses CGI, the programs won't be able to access conferences via the Web.
They will see the main page, and that's it.
(Shorter answer: Response 23 has nothing to do with humans using Backtalk.)
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janc
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response 26 of 27:
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Nov 24 21:14 UTC 1996 |
(There was some concern that search programs like Yahoo! and Alta Vista would
start indexing Grex's conferences. That would be kind of cool in a way, and
kind of spooky too. But it wouldn't happen, even if we allowed anonymous
reading. Not that it theoretically can't happen, but the designers of Web
indexes generally think there is no sense in indexing something that is the
output from a program (a cgi-bin program) since the next time you access that
same URL you'll tend to get a completely different output.)
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