From: SiKing (siking@myrealbox.com)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 21:23:35 CDT
Tom Neff wrote:
>
> --On Saturday, May 18, 2002 1:57 PM -0400 SiKing < >
> wrote:
> > Tom Neff wrote:
> >> This has all become a bit moot because the biggest extant repository and
> >> interface for Usenet - Google Groups - faithfully records all Expires:
> >> and Supersedes: headers and will display them upon demand (View Original
> >> Format), but apparently doesn't obey them at all.
> >
> > Am I wrong in that what we (and I use "we" very liberally) are trying to
> > do here, with news.answers faqs.org and rtfm.mit.edu, really does the same
> > thing as Google, just much better?
>
> Um, I don't think we're doing the same thing. The FAQ maintainers are
> trying to promulgate answers to frequently asked questions, on a variety of
> topics. Google is a search engine that caches much of the Web and archives
> all of Usenet. The only relationship between them and us is that they end
> up cacheing and searchably indexing much of what we do... which is equally
> true for the folks over at Big Jim's Gun Nut and Fish Club. :)
>
> > ... So basically in this one case, who
> > cares what Google thinks?
>
> In this case I don't believe that Google "thinks" so much as it simply has
> a model of behavior. I'm pointing out that the largest single locus of
> Usenet reading and searching nowadays is the Google archive, which does not
> appear to respect Supersedes and Expires, so that worrying overmuch about
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> them on our part may be unproductive.
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That's what I meant, I just said it wrong :)
SiKing.
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