FAQ's and the real world (NOT THE FLAME WAR)

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Dan Wallach (dwallach@cs.Princeton.EDU)
Thu, 7 Apr 1994 11:29:59 -0400

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled flame war because...

I just had a conversation with an AP writer doing a report on ergonomic
keyboards. Finally, it came down to describing my ftp site. Wheee! I
suppose I could have pointed him to other FAQ's, but what can he put in
his article?

Would you believe they finally standardized that e-mail is written without
quotes and with a lower-case 'e'? He said that was a big argument! Now,
how do they standardize descriptions of anonymous ftp sites? It will be
quite a few years before they can just publish a URL in the newspaper :-)

Also, I'm curious how many others of you have dealt with press people
with varying familiarity with the Net? This guy seemed pretty hip
(he got my FAQ via Pipeline -- a New York provider which has a pretty
Windows interface), which made my life easier.

Dan Wallach
typing-injury-faq

P.S. I have no problems with Walnut Creek. My free CD-ROM will be here soon.

--
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dwallach@cs.princeton.edu  Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces
Phone#: 609-452-8446       of its cabinet." -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48.


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