- From: Jeremy Dunck <ralinon@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:13:17 -0600
- To: seairth@seairth.com, www-tag@w3.org
>From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@seairth.com> <snip> >3) How much trouble is this causing right now? In theory, it makes <snip> >I haven't been on this list long and therefore don't expect my words will >have much sway, but I'd rather see the TAG continue to put its energy into >more pressing issues. The examples of robot.txt and such are anecdotal, and not representative of the whole problem. I agree that indirection in an application such as a web crawler is an uphill fight, and that in such applications, it might be pragmatic to leave well enough alone. However, there is a pressing need for retrieving metadata for a particular site (and I'd say, for a particular URI), and that's why I support the proposed issue. Thanks, Jeremy Dunck _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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