On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:29:38 -0400, Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Christian, > > I'm interested in your web scraping technology in CL. > > I'd like to build a distributed web proxy that persistently records > everything one views, so that you can always read and share the pages > you like even when the author dies, the servers are taken off-line, > the domain name is bought by someone else, and the new owner puts a > new robots.txt that tells archive.org to not display the pages > anymore. > > I don't know if this adventure tempts you, but I think the time is > ripe for end-user-controlled peer-to-peer distributed archival and > sharing of information. Obvious application, beyond archival, is a > distributed facebook/g+ replacement.
I cannot add anything, but express an emphatic agreement. One important thing, IMO, would be a mathematically-sound, peer-to-peer archive authenticity co-verification -- perhaps in the same sense as git manages to do it. -- regards, Samium Gromoff -- "Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997 Keynote) _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro