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

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Eric S. Raymond (esr@locke.ccil.org)
Fri, 9 Dec 1994 14:14:45 -0500 (EST)


> Note 1: Any FAQ posted to news.answers is evaluated (and implemented?) for
> inclusion on Ohio State's WWW server.

This gives me an idea. Official question to the news.answers moderators: if I
were to give you a URL that retrieved a flat-text-formatted version of
one of my HTML FAQs, would you run it monthly to post/archive the result?

The reason I ask is because if this were to turn into a reliable service, the
who FAQ/HTML divide might crumble.

> Note 2: If you wish, you can supply them with a html version and they will
> put that in place of their text to HTML version.
>
> Note 3: Ohio State is also the home of Homepage Publisher - a server where
> users can put up their own HTML pages for free. See for a sample:
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> <URL:http://www.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?lvirden_sig.html>

So much for the argument that not everyone can afford to serve a Web page.

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					Eric S. Raymond <esr@locke.ccil.org>
					WWW: //www.thyrsus.com/~esr/home.html


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