My guess is that many of these new users come to the 'net from individual
dial-up accounts. In that setting off-line access to pointers and
traditions is very limited if it exists at all.
I wish there were a way to build a "pointer" to the FAQ archives into
every newsgroup post -- something like a URL among the headers which
web-aware newsreading software could "link" to and which at least
provided a hint for people using other software that such a thing existed
and where to find it.
(I remember reading an announcement that one of the big commercial
services was building a similar feature into their newsreading resource
-- a "button" on the screen which retrieved the FAQ for the current
newsgroup with a single click. Sounded /very/ sensible. I wonder if it
worked.)
> 2. Not everyone has WWW access. WWW access requires IP, and not everyone has
> that.
>
I wonder why this particular myth is /so/ hard to stifle. I use lynx to
access the Web all the time and it works just fine. I don't get to see
the pretty pictures or hear the sound-effects, but the fundamental
vitality of the web for providing access to text-based information is
easily available over a dial-up line to a text-oriented unix provider.
Putnam Barber
Seattle
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