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