[47311] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spiderspace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnathan Corgan)
Tue Jan 16 14:33:26 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:20:20 -0800 (GMT-0800)
From: Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@aeinet.com>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <ad2127120b02100482d3@[205.199.118.202]>
On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> 1. At the Saturday Cypherpunks physical meeting, Marianne Mueller (I think)
> was telling me about an experience where an old letter she'd written to
> someone showed up in an Alta Vista search. A personal letter, that is. How
> this happened was that the letter to her friend was buried several
> subdirectories deep in a directory he made accessible to the outside world.
> Presto, Alta Vista found it, indexed it, and made it keyword-searchable!
Minor correction, it was a private e-mail that I had sent to Marianne
over a year ago that showed up in an AltaVista search. (It was a
completely inadvertant mistake on her part that this happened.)
Funny to me, embarrassing to her, and a perfect (though trivial) example of
how the evolution of "spiderspace" will, until people become more
familiar with it, reveal all sorts of unexpected surprises.
--
Johnathan Corgan
jcorgan@aeinet.com
http://www.aeinet.com/jcorgan.htm
