From: Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@aeinet.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:32:15 +0800
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Spiderspace
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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