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                         No really, I'm in O'Reilly!

I just got word from Mark [1] that I've been mentioned in O'Reilly's [2]
HTTP: The Definitive Guide (HyperText Transfer Protocol: The Definitive
Guide) [3] on page 230. It's in reference to a draft proposal [4] I had to
extend the robots exclustion protocol [5] ([DELETED-and as I see, I really
need to update the links on that page—they're all out of date-DELETED] which
I had to go back and fix the links since link-rot had set in) I wrote back in
1996. I had no idea I made an O'Reilly book. And Mark is pissed off that I
made it first (well, “pissed off” is not quite the right word—maybe “envious”
is more like it).

I get maybe one email about it every other year or so, namely asking me if I
know of any robots that implement my proposed extentions and to my knowledge
I know of none that do.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[2] http://www.oreilly.com/
[3] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/httptdg/index.html
[4] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/robots2.html
[5] http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html

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