> > 2. Not everyone has WWW access. WWW access requires IP, and not everyone has
> > that.
>
> WWW won't require IP for long. I know of a couple of different approaches to
> this being worked on now.
"Twinsock" and "SLIPknot" are two such animals which are already
available for the PC/Windows platform.
Right now I'm pretty sure that the majority of users on "The
internet" are using University shell accounts. I'm certain, though,
that in less than a year this will not be the case. Particularly with
AOL and Compu$erve planning on incorporating WWW access into their services.
I think that FAQ's are still a going concern, but in the next year
the trend will be toward posting "FAQ Pointers" on USENET and the
actual FAQ on the WWW. Of course, this blurs the line between
Frequently Asked Questions and general-purpose references. I suppose
the whole news.answers system will one day be unnecessary, since the
Web is both _more_ and _less_ exclusive than USENET. Just about
anyone* can put up a web page, but nobody will read it unless it's
worth reading. Sort of a self-judging process.
Eventually I suspect that the best "FAQ's" (Or whatever they end up
being called) will be created by commercial enterprises. After all,
what better way to get people to read your web page than to have the
best available reference on _____ available there...
[* - see also Canter & Siegel]
--
...michael moncur, BC, OEADM - mgm@xmission.com [X] fot#1...
"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."
-- J. Hart
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