AOL Adds a Cache

[Michael Sauers]

Fellow members;

AOL has announced to add a cache to its system to "speed up the World Wide
Wait."  When a popular Web site is requested by an AOL subscriber the on the
the AOL caches will be checked and if a copy of the site exists the user
will see that  version, electronically closer to the user, and quicker to
download. Read the full article @
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0416/307545.html )

Anyone else got a problem with this?

What about copyright issues in storing these sites en masse without asking
the permission of the author?  What are the guarantees that the user will be
getting the most up-to-date version of the page if it comes out of the
cache?

Anyone have an opinion?

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           Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer
       Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
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