> 2. Not everyone has WWW access. WWW access requires IP, and not everyone ha
> that.
Right. Internet != Usenet, and the Usenet users of FAQs (that is,
people who get them via newsgroups) would not be well served if they
became WWW-only documents.
And there are other networks in the world. I do what I can to encourage
propagation of my Red Dwarf FAQ to CompuServe, AOL, GEnie, Prodigy,
Fidonet, and anywhere else that a flat-ASCII text file can be reposted.
I always grant permission to anyone who wants to include it in a CD-ROM.
And I suspect that it's even reached some Red Dwarf fans by being
*printed on paper* and *mailed*. These channels would be impeded if I
converted my FAQ into an HTML document that can't really be read without
a WWW browser.
I'm not ignoring the Web. Like some other maintainers I've seen here,
I've converted my FAQ to Usenet digest format so that Tom Fine's server
can automatically create an HTML version of it, and I encourage Web
denizens to link to that. But I intend to continue maintaining a
human-readable, non-WWW dependent version of my FAQ as long as I think
there are users who will benefit from it.
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