Re: Encyclopedia Britannica willing to host HTML FAQs

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mathew@mantis.co.uk said:
> In article <9403281700.AA15067@neutron.chem.yale.edu>, Dave Schweisguth <dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu> wrote:
> >Chris Cole <chris@questrel.questrel.COM> said:
> >> I mentioned that a lot of FAQ maintainers are looking for a machine to
> >> host their HTML FAQs, and [the Encyclopaedia Britannica folks] permitted
> >> me to extend an offer to you all to host your FAQs on their machine.
> >
> >That's nice, but there's already a large and well-maintained archive at Ohio
> >State. [etc.]
>
> Unfortunately, Tom Fine's archive is only accessible to people who have
> NSFNET routeing -- which excludes many commercial sites. It would be nice
> to have a site which everyone could get to, and I suspect Encyclopedia
> Britannica will be it.

No kidding? I wasn't aware of that. Let me amend my comment: Tom Fine's
archive should be mirrored by someone outside the fence. Two archives as
such is still a bad idea.

Cheers,

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