I agree that bots can serve a good purpose.
However, the problem I see is that they can insert a
lot of trivial
information into the W. (For example, who needs the
*exact* number of
residents in any particular town?)
Well, should they round it? If so, why should they? Is
there anything inherently wrong with knowing precice
statistics as opposed to approximate ones? Will
readers brains be overloaded with information?
I think bots can be used to do busywork (for this is
why compter
programs (and computers) were created in the first
place)) but that
they must mark their passage and make it easy to
re-bot the info. For
example, they might segregate the botted info like
<bot id="120">
some data in xhml or xml</bot>
That would be nice, but it would be kinda useless
after Rambot.
LDan
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