The feature which refreshes page content is used at AltaVista to
update the ABCNEWS.COM headlines.  That META tag is designed for
pages which change on a frequent basis, such as news feeds.

If this behavior is disturbing to you, avoid pages that use that
META tag. 

David

Iain McLaren wrote: 
> On inspection of the html for the altavista homepages, it seems
> that the webmasters have added a line:
> 
> <META http-equiv=Refresh content=1800>
> 
> This makes Netscape (and probably every other browser) reload
> the page every 30 minutes from when the page was first loaded.


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