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

John Lock (jlock@mindspring.com)
Fri, 9 Dec 1994 09:45:39 +0000

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On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Tina Sikorski <tina@tezcat.com> replied:
> I'm not sure I understand why there is all this fuss about "Putting Your
> FAQ On the World Wide Web" to begin with. Everyone I know who maintains a
> FAQ of any sort has it on the Web, but like me, most of them opt for
> plain text files, without the tons of jumps to other places that _would_
> require it to be HTML-ized. I've been scratching my head since this
> discussion started (my initial reaction was 'But my FAQ is on the Web and
> I didn't do anything special'), and I still don't get it.

Give Tina a ceegar for correctly identifying the "Tempest in a
Teapot" syndrome ;-) When I first got WWW access I found no great
difficulty in posting a plain text version of my FAQ to Usenet and
keeping an HTML version on WWW. I have only one source (the HTML
version) which is stripped for Usenet purposes. It just ain't that
hard and serves virtually *any* reader regardless of location or
toolset. FAQ maintainers without Web access can just let Tom Fine's
service do it automatically at Ohio State (Thanks Tom!).

John Lock <jlock@mindspring.com>
FAQ maintainer for rec.food.drink.beer

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