Re: robot developers?

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Thomson
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Perkins Sent: 09 February 2001 00:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: robot developers? Here's something for discussion: The robots.txt and robots meta tag protocols have serious flaws but there appears

Re: robot developers?

2001-02-12 Thread Alan Perkins
Tom [quote] Finally, a question that exposes the worst flaw of the robots.txt protocol: a webmaster wishes to make all pages of a Web site, EXCEPT the home page (i.e. /), accessible to robots; how can she do this using the robots.txt protocol? The answer - She can't. [unquote] This is

Re: robot developers?

2001-02-09 Thread Corey Wineman
On the robots side, I'd be interested to know what techniques people are using to store URLs in the queue for later processing. (i.e., since folks want a delay between requests, it makes sense to have multiple input queues or use a database of some sort to store the URLs until they are

Re: robot developers?

2001-02-08 Thread (Lorraine Patsco)
are people out-there developing (desing, programming) robots? I'm having one designed for my site according to my wishes.

Re: robot developers?

2001-02-08 Thread fastmedia
I think it has to do with the fact that everytime someone engineers a stroke of genius, they keep it to themselves. Everyone wants free hand outs, but few are willing to share their own findings. is anybody interested in being able to grab urls out of flash movies? i have some perl code i

Re: robot developers?

2001-02-08 Thread ap296
So, where is the robots brainstorming taking place? If you find the answer to your question, please let us all know here. I'm also disappointed at the lack of content on this list. I think it has to do with the fact that everytime someone engineers a stroke of genius, they keep it to