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
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