Steve Schear[SMTP:schear@lvcm.com]

At 11:40 PM 10/9/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:

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It's unfortunate that we have to rely on Google. Imagine an ongoing, distributed project to cache the web. Volunteers could keep tabs on a subset of corporate and personal web pages and cache old versions when changes are made. Rewriting history becomes that much harder. And it's certainly a better use of computers than seti@home.

This is actually an excellent application front end for a Mojo Nation type

system, as the data is redundant and distributed.

You get an interesting recursion problem arising - does your 'memory of the web' site include sites which contain archives for the purpose of being 'memory of the web'? Shades of Godel.... Peter Trei