Re: Ohio State

Dave Schweisguth (dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu)
Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:30:24 -0500 (EST)

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Larry Virden writes:
> An interesting exercise for folk is to go to one of the major WWW archiving
> sites, like alta-vista, lycos, etc. and do a search for some set of terms
> unique to your FAQ. Be sure to find a set from as early in its history as
> you can. Then take a look at the ages of your FAQ out on the web.

A little story along those lines, just for amusement, really: The SGI FAQ
group recently got a complaint about an inaccessible URL into our FAQ tree.
Someone had found us through Alta Vista, which had indexed the SGI FAQs at
http://viz.tamu.edu/. That URL worked only when we were setting up our WWW
site, and changed to http://www-viz.tamu.edu/ before anyone outside our group
knew about it. I have no idea how their indexing robot found this, much less
how it found http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/ and the URLs therein.

I also found a copy of our FAQs at a site in Japan; someone had used
'webcopy' to snarf the entire tree from OSU. Naturally that copy isn't too
fresh.

Irrelevant plug: see http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/tools/ for our FAQ
generating and (of most interest) HTMLifying tools.

Cheers,

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