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

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Eric S. Raymond (esr@locke.ccil.org)
Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:27:34 -0500 (EST)

> Sure, I will. I expect that within six months, I will have
> upgraded my home connection to, gasp, UUCP! Maybe, maybe,
> *maybe* six months after that I will have achieved a SLIP
> connection, but even then I dunno how much Web browsing I'm
> going to do at 14.4K, eh? (To answer the Heloises out
> there, I don't intend to run Netscape even if the MCOM
> employees come to my home and insert flaming bamboo sticks
> beneath my fingernails.)

Note that I did say "everybody on the Net". That is, everybody with a
real-time connection to an Internet machine, whether that connection is IP
or a shell account or indirect service through Genie/CIS/AOL etc. Assuming
from what you say that your mail access is via a shell account one some
net machine, I'll lose the bet if you can't use lynx within six months.

> So, what's a good dinner to you, Eric? This should be
> interesting.

Kung pao gai ding at Linh's on Route 30. Or filet mignon at Steak & Ale over
by 252. Or pork pottery pot at Saigon Plaza. Or, for that matter, mushroom
burgers and wings at Chili's (the one at King of Prussia has better fries).
None more than about $20, so being wrong about this wouldn't break me. :-)

> > The other drawback is that there aren't yet good mechanisms for advertising
> > and indexing WWW resources.
>
> The drawback is that the Web sucks if taken as a publishing
> medium.

I'd like to know why you you think so.

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					Eric S. Raymond <esr@locke.ccil.org>
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