Re: Standard for Usenet References?

Christopher Allen (consensus@netcom.com)
Tue, 4 Jan 1994 14:04:10 -0800

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>Sorry if this has been covered before, but is there a standard, accepted
>format for referencing an on-line FAQ in a non on-line paper?

Many people use URLs (the same format that World Wide Web uses.)

This is an excerpt from John E. Godwin's excellent "Elements of E-Text
Style, Version 1.0, 9 August 1993 from
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:/etext/etext93/estyle10.txt

>The World Wide Web attempts to link documents with cross-references
>(hypertext links) on a global scale. The notation developed for this
>project is called a universal reference locator (URL) and is very
>similar to
>
> protocol://node:/directory/file:port
>
>E.g.:
>
> ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/pub/education/README:80.
>
> news://comp.sys.mac
>
>
>The "protocol" part has to do with the method of getting the document
>(and thus implicitly with the classification scheme). The examples here
>are File Transport Protocol and Usenet News, two common document
>retrieval systems. "ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu" is a computer, "comp.sys.mac" is
>a "newsgroup". "/pub/education/README" is a file in a directory called
>"/pub/education"; and "80" is a "port number". These details only
>concern the retriever, who may be just a computer program.
>
>The URL notation is easily adapted to other hierarchical schemes used
>outside the computing world, especially if the syntax rules are relaxed
>a bit. Here are some ideas:
>
>For Books:
>
> dewey://stcharles.pub.lib:270.23.07:gilson:4 (St. Charles Public
>Library, Dewey Decimal, Author Ettienne Gilson, copy 4).
>
> LoC://QA.22.4: (a library of Congress citation)
>
> ISBN://123-24-55
>
>For a Journal Article:
>
> journal://Time:1990.23.56-69
>
>For the Phone System:
>
> voice://1.708.840.8069 (A voice number)
>
> fax://1.708.840.8069 (A FAX number)
>
> internet://jgoodwin:adcalc.fnal.gov (E-mail address)
>
> postal://Box.6022:St.Charles:IL:60174 (Surface mail)

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