----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. John Takacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: [aseek-users] MaxHops setting and how it works for subsequent
indexing after the initial indexing of a single URL.
> Greetings!
>
> If I have a MaxHops 6 set for an orginating URL with several sub-pages and
> tens of thousands of urls in each sub-page, and everything gets
indexed.....
>
> What happens during the next index?
>
> Obviously the MaxHops 6 setting works for the orginating URL and all
> sub-pages, BUT now when the second indexing comes up there are tens of
> thousands or hundreds of thousands of URL's unrelated to the originating
> site/URL other than that they are referenced by it.
>
> Do these hundreds of thousands of URLs unrelated to the originating URL
now
> get a MaxHops of 6 as well?
No, MaxHops are set in "aspseek.conf" only.
>
> If so, this could be dangerous! The index would grow exponentially.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John
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