Re: Dealing with growing FAQs

Tom Holub (tom@soda.berkeley.edu)
Mon, 27 Jun 1994 21:22:19 -0700 (PDT)

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Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
>
> It's worse than 60K. The practical limit on a number
> of macintosh news readers is 32K. Nonetheless that's just too
> small a limit to deal with so I've flouted it from the
> beginning.
>
> On the other hand there is a real problem with FAQ lists being
> too large for people to comfortably peruse. I suspect the answer
> in the near future is to make the lists available in a more
> easily browsed format, specifically HTML.

HTML is not a panacea. I find that many of the HTML documents I have to
deal with--I would go so far as to say the majority--make the information
less accessible, not more. While a well-designed HTML document can be
an improvement over text and grep, most people designing HTML documents
are not particularly good at it and many documents can't be much
improved by HTML in the first place.
-Tom

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