That is an excellent point. I wasn't really aware that this list had a
significant non-US population until this thread.
Still, I think you are probably overestimating the persistence of that lag.
If anyone had told me a year ago that I would be seeing the recognizable embryo
of a true world-wide distributed hypertext system, I might have believed them.
But if they'd asked me to believe the beast would go from zero to critical mass
and popular acceptance in that same period, I'd have thought they were crazy.
But those thresholds *have already been passed*. Give it another year and OZ
will have it too.
> As to the FAQ question, I think that the news system does a very good job
> of distributing most such documents, and that the Web would be a step
> backwards rather than forwards. Some of the FAQ's however are reference
> works rather than "newbie filters" and could maybe be shifted off into the
> Web with a simple pointer posted instead.
Exactly my point! For these "reference" FAQs (which, I think, are now the
rule rather than the exception) the Web is a better medium.
-- Eric S. Raymond <esr@locke.ccil.org> WWW: //www.thyrsus.com/~esr/home.html
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