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I've been seeing entries like this,
65.214.36.157 - - [30/Dec/2002:21:06:58 +0000] \
"GET /seairth/ HTTP/1.0" 404 283
in my HTTP server logs for www.milessabin.com pretty regularly for a
while now (the source IP is typically a search engine, in this case
directhit/teoma), and I've been wondering why on earth that should be.
I assumed it had _something_ to do with Seairth Jacobs, because
googling for "seairth" pulls up references to him and not a lot else,
but beyond that I had no clue.
Well, I finally cracked and decided to get to the bottom of it. And what
do you know? Searching for "seairth sabin" on teoma got me this,
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg00976.html
Ironic, no? Even tho' he _didn't_ by his lights have the authority to
create that URI, the mere act of minting it and posting it to a mailing
list with a web accessible archive created an expectation on the part
of several agents that it would be usefully dereferencable.
Which seems to support what I (I hoped uncontroversially) said earlier
in the same thread,
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg00921.html
Happy New Year,
Miles (resolving to to use http://www.example.invalid/ from now on ;-)
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