grnidone - 2:27 pm on Sep 20, 2000 (gmt 0)

>I certainly have no reason to fabricate any part of >my post and I doubt that Mr. Gilbert (of Inktomi) had >any reason to tell me anything which wasn't true. >What would be the point?

First, let me say, I believe you Liane, in that I am sure Mr. Tim Gilbert told you all of those things. There is not a question in my mind that you are telling it as it was told to you.

As to your question, "What would be the point of him telling you something that isn't true", that's easy. He is taking the blame off of himself: 'greasing the squeaky wheel.'

If he tells you that he is doing everything he can, and the technical team even protested with a walkout,and the *whole* team is frustrated with the management for not changing their practices, then it seems you both are "on the same side" of the arguement. You both can blame someone else, in this case, Inktomi management. What does that do for him? It gets you off of his back. You, on the other hand, feel comforted that 'at least he is frustrated as well, and he is trying to do all he can.'

It goes back to the old saying "When you can't beat em, join em."

Now, to get back on topic, I think what the IRC conversation from the three guys at Inktomi tells us is that the idea about using pages already in the database with new links to other pages is the way to go to insert new pages since

"addurl is pretty useless to begin with, because we already make a webmap and crawl most of it anyway"

Enough of my babbling.
-G