Re: The FAQ system approaches obsolescence. What do we do

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Perry Rovers (PROVERS@kub.nl)
6 Dec 94 12:54:04 MET

> >1. FAQ's originated from the desire to cut down on news traffic as more and
> You have a point here. FAQ format will continue to be optimal for topics that
> really are newsgroup-centered --- that is, until newsreaders develop hooks to
> Web browsers.
And then? The 'popular' Web servers will become crowded while everybody can
now just read news.answers at their local site. WWW servers are nice, but
if those docs aren't spread around, the load on say a www version of
rtfm.mit.edu might become rather big if only one such server exists.
I wonder how the load on www.cis.ohio-state.edu is and if it has become
bigger the last months?

> > 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.
True, www-by-mail etc. are some alternatives and with the current hype it's
something that everybody wants. This is not necessarily a good thing IMHO,
but that's a whole different issue.

I think the distributed FAQ system works quite well and probably will
for some time to come. More and more things will start to appear on
WWW servers, but especially the stuff that's most asked for should be
available from many sites, not just one web server.

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