Re: Tr: [ga] DNSO.org web site and robots.txt

["todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>]

Michael - all -
A WikiWikiWeb would solve all this problem and create a much stronger
interface model for the List as well. Would be totally cool.

Todd Glassey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: "Philippe Renaut" <renaut@dnso.org>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: Tr: [ga] DNSO.org web site and robots.txt


> I would appreciate a change in the robots.txt file.  It is useful for
> researchers, especially students, who may not be that sophisticated, to
> have easy access to the material via common tools such as google.
>
> Sophisticated researchers may know that they need to go to a DNSO-only
> search tool, but most people will not be aware of this, as the ordinary
> practice is increasingly to allow indexing.
>
> Thus, I very strongly request you make this change in the interests of
> allowing better quality research on Internet domain name issues.  Thank
> you.
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Philippe Renaut wrote:
>
> > I am very happy to see how a simple robots.txt file, a pretty old
technology as some have pointed out, can produce some pretty insultive
allusions by some presumably highly skilled technicians.
> > To consider things with a drop of intelligence, we can say that :
> >
> > the web site is lacking a search engine. This is a good point and the
secretariat is always open to intelligent proposals. If this is a global ask
(asked by the chair), we will do it. Remember we could develop hundreds of
services but some people are paying for it and may be they want us to do the
services they ask for and not what we secretariat staff are deciding is good
for them.
> >
> > the robots.txt is pretty restrictive. This is to avoid putting ten
thousands of pages of mails on google like tools. I personnaly think it is a
much more wise approach to have a good index place for www.dnso.org, and
then a fluent navigation inside the web site, more than to index every
pages...Once again if there is a global ask to change this, it can be done.
> >
> > accusations saying we don't know how to handle mailing lists and how to
have a web site up. I am sure the very wise person in charge of the
accusation can tell us every minutes where the web site was down, but I am
also sure it would not be very convincing for his cause. By the way the
secretariat was an open call for proposal so why are you not here instead of
us doing the job ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Philippe RENAUT
> > DNSO sec.
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