Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Simon Higgs allegedly said:
> 
> At 10:51 AM -0800 1/3/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> 3) DNS gropers will have pulled all this data into a white-pages
> directory services anyway.
> 
> What is the standard for crawling through the DNS space? Are these
> robots going to respect TTLs? The web crawlers are a nightmare to
> synchronize with real pages. Half the pages in AltaVista don't exist
> anymore. This is going to create a huge "DNS lag". I really don't think
> this is the right direction to go in. Enhancing DNS, or building a
> bridge to whois makes much more sense.

I believe the bridge to whois is really rather trivial, but I haven't 
investigated in enough detail to say for sure.  DavidK@isi, if I 
understand him correctly, seems to think so as well, and he seems to 
know. 

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