Re: Is news.answers dead?

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Omer Zak (xlacha1@wizard.weizmann.ac.il)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:03:24 +0200 (USAST)

My own 6.2 agorot (2 cents in the current rate of exchange of Israeli
Shekels):
I think that the news.answers mechanism of distributing FAQs is not so
relevant nowadays, when several can publish any information they want in
WWW sites. The news.answers was relevant in the pre-WWW era.

I suggest that news.answers be replaced by a special purpose FAQ search
engine. FAQ maintainers will register their FAQ WWW pages with the
special search engine. The search engine maintainer will also provide
Web-by-mail service for those who need the FAQs and don't have WWW
access. The messages in news.answers group will consist only of URLs of
FAQs and FAQ WWW search engines.

Another component which would be helpful in solving the puzzle is some
volunteers who have WWW sites and are willing to host FAQ pages of people
who do not have their own WWW sites. Personally I don't need such a
service because I have a WWW site for my DEAF-L ([bit.listserv.deaf-l])
FAQ.

My DEAF-L mini-FAQ, which I submitted to news.answers, is already based upon
the existence of the WWW.

--- Omer
Internet: xlacha1@wizard.weizmann.ac.il
WWW home page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~xlacha1/
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