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

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Paul Lindner (lindner@arcwelder.micro.umn.edu)
Thu, 8 Dec 1994 11:10:26 -0600 (CST)

Perry Rovers sez:
.
. Yes, but does the mirror system work? It sort of used to work. But
. nowadays more and more people starting on the net know only a couple
. of sites. They are told, use wuarchive, use ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
. instead of the alternatives and it takes a lot of them a long time
. to figure out what a mirror is and where they can find one.
. Things like mirrors are useful but one has to find the FAQ that lists
. them first. That's why there will always be intro's and FAQs,
. whether through news or www or whatever.

This will all be moot when software that uses URNs (Universal Resource
Names) becomes available. You can just tell people get it from
urn:isbn0006789, and then folks can use a urn->url mapping service to
find the closest location of the collection of information.

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