I just got word from Mark [1] that I've been mentioned in O'Reilly's [2] HTTP: The Definitive Guide (HyperText Transfer Protocol: The Definitive Guide) [3] on page 230. It's in reference to a draft proposal [4] I had to extend the robots exclustion protocol [5] ([DELETED-and as I see, I really need to update the links on that page—they're all out of date-DELETED] which I had to go back and fix the links since link-rot had set in) I wrote back in 1996. I had no idea I made an O'Reilly book. And Mark is pissed off that I made it first (well, “pissed off” is not quite the right word—maybe “envious” is more like it).
I get maybe one email about it every other year or so, namely asking me if I know of any robots that implement my proposed extentions and to my knowledge I know of none that do.
[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[3] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/httptdg/index.html
[4] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/robots2.html