(It seems to me that the *worst* FAQs are the ones that cannot easily
be `hypertexted', and perhaps I can demonstrate that. Here's why: a
hypertext document is really nothing but a document where its
references have been made *explicit* rather than implicit. That is, a
document might say `experts agree that you should do [x].' a hypertext
document would say, `experts [a][b][c] agree that you should do [x]. '
where [a][b][c] are all hypertext buttons that could lead to the actual
quotes. The documents that *don't* have references to their answers,
e.g. sort of exist in a vacuum, `handed down from above', in the prior
form, seem to me to be *poor writing* because of the lack of
referencing. Existing FAQs that qualify all their statements anyway,
like `you can get a file on this subject from
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/news.answers/writing/resources' are easy to `hyperfy'.)
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