1. It would be nice if someone would post a discussion/man-text
about the relevant things in HTML, WWW, etc. As i gather it
the WWW concerns are just for pointers to other info, is HTML
the same, or is it a complete format?
2. I suggest that we take the idea of conforming *entire* FAQs to
a single format to be utterly shot down and buried. The digest
format is out there.
3. I suggest that we take the idea of *conforming* anything WRT
FAQs and bury it. No one enforces the digest format, people are
free to choose and i tend to like that. I think that this
discussion got off to a bad start due to a reaction by FAQ writes who
resented being *told* what to do. It would be better to rephrase it
as being a discussion of an additional *option* for FAQ writers to
choose if they so wished.
4. The useful discussion seems to be centered around information in
FAQs which was pointers to other resources (e.g. FTP sites) lets focus
on that. The relevant issues seem to me to be:
a. Machine Readability -- so that FAQs can be scooped up and easily
incorporated by WWW, hypertext, etc
b. Human Readability -- so that the format isn't too kludgy to write
or read.
c. Open Format -- so that if FAQ writers don't like the format they
don't have to use it. I'd suggest that there be another header
added to the FAQ which would indicate that it was conforming to
the spec. This way people who don't like the format wouldn't
break the conversion programs.
-- lamontg@u.washington.edu "'tis an ill wind that blows no minds." -- principia discordia
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