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Re: Indexing of WWW space (going one higher than HTML)?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martijn Koster)
Tue Aug 2 16:33:06 1994

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 22:28:49 +0200
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Thus wrote Marc VanHeyningen:

> I've talked to people who dislike using [ALIWEB], and the reasons usually
> boil down to "The link to the UK is slow." :-)

Well, you know, the pace of life is slower here :-)

Seriously though, yes, the slow link to my server is a problem. This is
not likely to change significantly in the next year.

If I rewrite the search code (currently a Plexus script) to be a CGI
script, is anyone in the States willing to mirror the database via FTP
and offer a search capability?

-- Martijn
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