Really? Over easter I was reading some random PC magazine my dad had
bought, and they had an item in the news roundup about how a site had
been swamped with traffic after putting up a WWW page about the
Olympics. They said "For those on the Internet, the place to look is
http://www.somewhere.com/whatever" (I forget the URL).
I don't see why newspapers and magazines shouldn't print URLs, although
they might want to explain what they are. It's not such a big problem;
those who are on the net will know what to do with "ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/",
or will be able to guess; those who aren't on the net don't need to know :-)
I'd suggest saying something like "If you are on the Internet, this is the
electronic address you use to get to the computer which holds the
information". Then print the URL.
It's not worth trying to explain the difference between telnet, ftp,
gopher, wais, http... It'll just seem confusing and arbitrary to a
newcomer. Just give the journo a copy of Mosaic and let the software
keep track of which protocol goes where.
mathew
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