As the creator of the Archie service back in 1989, I just wanted to put a little reality check on this whole debate.
Archie (for those of you who weren't working on the Internet before 1995:-) was a distributed data gathering and indexing system for anonymous FTP sites. Having taking a cursory read through CMGI's press releases & patents, I can tell you that most of that stuff followed the prior art of myself and the rest of the Archie team, from Archie versions 1 through 3.
If you want any background on this, feel free to contact me.
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Archie (for those of you who weren't working on the Internet before 1995 :-) was a distributed data gathering and indexing system for anonymous FTP sites. Having taking a cursory read through CMGI's press releases & patents, I can tell you that most of that stuff followed the prior art of myself and the rest of the Archie team, from Archie versions 1 through 3.
If you want any background on this, feel free to contact me.
Alan Emtage (aemtage@mediapolis.com)