Re: Is *.answers available via gopher/WWW/WAIS?

Thomas A. Fine (fine@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 30 Nov 93 19:22:30 -0500

Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
Next message: Britt Klein: "Re: More FAQ formalities [flamage]"
Previous message: emv@garnet.msen.com: "Re: Is *.answers available via gopher/WWW/WAIS?"
Maybe in reply to: Terry Carroll: "Is *.answers available via gopher/WWW/WAIS?"

>Since I made my FAQ available a few months ago, I've had requests to make it
>available via gopher, WWW, WAIS, etc. I don't have any direct access to any
>of these, so it's not easily possible for me to make it so available.
>
>It occurs to me that, since my FAQ is archived in news.answers, misc.answers,
>and comp.answers, it's archived at least at rtfm.mit.edu and ftp.uu.net, and
>probably a ton of other FTP sites that I don't even know about.
>
>Here's my question: are any or all of the *.answers groups available via any
>gopher, WWW or WAIS server? If so, I'd like to include a pointer in my FAQ
>to an appropriate server.

I guess you haven't been reading the large volume of recent mail in the
faq-maintainers mailing list. It's been largely concerned with choosing
(and ignoring) format standards for general use and for use in converting
to WWW. Well, you don't have to waste your time on that flame war if
you don't want to. Here's the info. Even if you don't know much about
these services, you can still include the relevant information from
below in your FAQ.

WWW
I maintain an "archive" of news.answers available via WWW. As a matter
of fact, I used WWW to read through your posting just last week. I found
it very informative; thanks much. Advertise the following reference to
get to the archive in general:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html

or to get to your partiular FAQ, give out this reference:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/Copyright-FAQ/top.html

Gopher
The news.answers introduction (which I pulled up in WWW ;-) lists
the following gopher sites for the FAQs:
cc1.kuleuven.ac.be port 70
jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca port 70
gopher.univ-lyon1.fr, port 70
ftp.win.tue.nl, port 70
gopher.win.tue.nl, port 70

WAIS
I pulled this straight out of the news.answers Introduction:

Note that the periodic posting archives on rtfm.mit.edu are also
accessible via WAIS (the database name is "usenet" on port 210). If
you don't know what WAIS is, don't worry about it, although you can
look in comp.infosystems.wais if you're curious. And don't write to
us and ask, please; we unfortuately already have too many things to
deal with without having to answer questions about other people's
software.

You might want to grab the news.answers introduction for other archive
sites, mail servers, telnet sites, etc. where the FAQs can be found.

tom

Next message: Britt Klein: "Re: More FAQ formalities [flamage]"
Previous message: emv@garnet.msen.com: "Re: Is *.answers available via gopher/WWW/WAIS?"
Maybe in reply to: Terry Carroll: "Is *.answers available via gopher/WWW/WAIS?"

[ Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive | Search Mail Archive | Authors | Usenet ]
[ 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 ]