Re: WWW support from bunyip (fwd)

Lou Montulli (montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu)
Mon, 24 Jan 94 23:15:36 CST


Here's a note I just got back from bunyip.
It looks like pretty good news.

:lou

Forwarded message:
> From peterd@expresso.bunyip.com Mon Jan 24 22:36:14 1994
> Message-Id: <9401250424.AA05226@expresso.bunyip.com>
> From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 23:24:41 -0500
> In-Reply-To: Lou Montulli's message as of Jan 19, 12:48
> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92)
> To: montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)
> Subject: Re: WWW support :)
> Cc: bajan@bunyip.com, goph-ans@bunyip.com
>
> Hi,
>
> [ You wrote: ]
>
> > As you probably know, WWW offers a gateway service to archie
> > using the new forms interface. This interface offers a
> > large improvement over the previous forms of archie access.
> . . .
> > I was also wondering if you have plans to index HTTP (WWW specific
> > protocal) servers as well as Gopher servers. It should be
> > very similar to what you have already done for gopher, except
> > that the web comunity would strongly prefer the use of prepared
> > index files exclusively.
>
> We're certainly considering some form of WWW indexing,
> although the lack of any real meaningful information in
> many of the HTTP links themselves makes the current
> automated approach somewhat problematic. We _have_
> completed initial tests of a new direct WWW frontend onto
> the current system, which will make both the current
> anonFTP and the new Gopher index collections available to
> the WWW community without any need for gateways. This will
> be part of a new augmented archie service which we hope to
> deploy in the near future.
>
> We'd be happy to work with the WWW community as it defines
> a standardized mechanism for indexing files but such a
> project will have to be held up until we can get the new
> gopher index service deployed and stabilized. Hopefully
> this will take no more than a couple of months (I say with
> a silly grin on my face :-) at which point we can look to
> the next collection to target.
>
> We'll certainly be keeping your suggestion in mind and if
> in the meantime the WWW community can agree upon the
> format of indexing files and start deploying them onto the
> net, we'd be happy to mine the data as soon as we have the
> resources to do so.
>
> - peterd
>
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> improve their businesses."
> - Jim Manzi, quoted in Communications Week...
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>

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