Re: forwarded message from Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Roy Smith (roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu)
Sat, 17 Jul 93 18:49:46 -0400
Marc Andreessen said:
> On a related topic, at IANET in Pittsburgh, Jim Fullton & others came
> to a general consensus that it'd be nice to allow WAIS to separate
> indexing from retrieval -- the upshot would be that WAIS could, in
> response to queries, return URL's and URN's that do *not* necessarily
> correspond to documents within a traditional-style WAIS database.
> E.g. you could get back a list of hits like this:
>
> gopher://foobar.com/argh/blargh
> news:13523514514253@2314654321545132.34154351453
> http://yoyodyne.com/bigboote/john
> ...
>
> This would be unbelievably sweet.
Yes! This is exactly what we need!