- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 96 11:13:03 PST
- To: sjk@amazon.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Shel asked:
For the etymologists among us, does anyone know where this
term originated?
The winner (as far as this mailing list goes) appears to be Koen Holtman.
I keep complete logs of my incoming mail, and this was the
earliest reference I found:
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
Message-Id: <199508191558.RAA17041@wswiop05.win.tue.nl>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Pragma min-age (Was:Re: A modest proposal)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 17:58:57 +0200 (MET DST)
[....]
A wasteful provider responding to these warnings by generating
pages with `one-time-urls' or other cache busters would immediately
show up on the `wastefulness detector' you assume present: a proxy
administrator could then decide to stop talking to the provider
altogether.
[....]
The full message is at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1995q3/0400.html
-Jeff
P.S.: I didn't find another use of the term until your own message
of Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:56:00.
Received on Thursday, 5 December 1996 11:30:10 UTC