Craven_de_Kere - 6:05 pm on May 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

py9jmas wrote: "Web Accelerator is a caching proxy server. Proxy servers don't look at robots.txt, they proxy requests. They also cache responses to speed up future requests, and to reduce bandwidth use/latency/server load. This is what Squid does. This is what Microsoft web proxy does. This is what AOL's proxies do. Why are you all upset by this? It is nothing new."

You are missing what is the issue for me and my sites (and others with similar concerns). you say that "they proxy requests" but google's accelerator does not just proxy requests it automates them and proxies some requests that the user *does not request*. It's the additional automated requests that will cause increased load and cost for me without monetization to pay for the costs.

It has the potential to threaten the viability of some sites.