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Skriven 2005-03-12 10:13:14 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 6769 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: FidoNews 22:08 [00/06]: The Front Page
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 ml>> 1. spiders build a web

 ml>> 2. internet browser software views the links on html pages
 ml>>    as a web

 ml>> 3. spiders crawl around on their web

 ml>> 4. internet web spiders crawl around on the internet web

 ml>> what is so hard about seeing that relationship in the analogies of
 ml>> "spider", "crawl" and "web"???

 MvdV> You keep forgetting - or ignoring - that I am not a native
 MvdV> English speaker.

i'm not forgetting or ignoring... that doesn't even come into the picture, in
my mind...

 MvdV> Homenyms in one language usually aren't in another.

sorry, i don't see that as being part of the problem, either... spidering would
mean to act similar to or perform like a spider based on just the name and the
usage of the word...

 MvdV> So associations work different in different langages.
 MvdV> "Spidering" is not a word I know and that I can find in a
 MvdV> dictionary.

shouldn't matter... you've a brain and are a smart individual... you should be
able to derive the meaning of the word... it is called using what <diety> gave
you for something besides a hat rack and being smart enough to know that you
don't need some formal body to tell you how to speak, write and think...

 MvdV> Besides the anology is a bad one. Spiders do NOT
 MvdV> crawl round on their web. The buikd web and then they sit
 MvdV> still in a corner until a prey gets caught in it.

have you ever watched a spider? i mean, really watched one? they perform
housekeeping chores and repairs and some of them do go hunting though that may
not be on a web... they are still spiders and they do go hunting for their
prey...

 MvdV> "Web" can mean a variety of things,

hunh?

 MvdV> so why should I associate the word wide web with a spider
 MvdV> crawling ?

because it has been being used like that for over ten years??

 MvdV> To you as a native English speaker the association may be
 MvdV> obvious, to me it is not.

no, i learned the association over ten years ago when it was first started
being used...

 ml>>  one can be said to be crawling, spidering, traveling, threading,
 ml>> rooting, and many other things that are analogous to traveling over
 ml>> some sort of medium...

 MvdV> "Traveling over some sort of medium"..hmmm...

i was trying to be generic enough for the gist of the meaning to get thru ;)

 MvdV> If you mean by "web spidering" "surfing the web" then the
 MvdV> answer to your question must be "no as such it is not illegal
 MvdV> here".

thank you ;)

 MvdV> If you mean something else, I can't answer the question.

no, you got it...

 ml>> seems to me that you need to quite trying to be so exact at times...

 MvdV> You mean I should /guess/ what you mean instead of asking? So
 MvdV> that you then could nail me down for making wrong assumptions?
 MvdV> No thanks pal, I am not walking into that trap.

hahaha... that depends on the situation, the song being played and the dance
being danced ;)

 MvdV> There are no stupid questions, but not asking can be pretty
 MvdV> stupid at times.

agreed...

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