Re: forwarded message from Dirk Herr-Hoyman

roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 93 18:49:46 -0400
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Message-id: <9307172249.AA18577@mchip00.med.nyu.edu>
To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: forwarded message from Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Status: RO

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!