Re: To split or not to split

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Graham Stoney (greyham@research.canon.oz.au)
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:06:56 +1100 (EDT)

Edward Reid writes:
> One thing to remember is that 100K is simply too large to read
> conveniently as a single article. If people actually sit down and read
> through your faq, using a newsreader, they will find it much more
> convenient to have it split. About 30K seems to be good for this
> purpose.

This will evidently be a matter of taste; for me, whether I'm reading 1 x 100K
article, or 10 x 10K articles makes little difference to me. It still ads up
to the same size. The statement "100K is simply too large to read
conveniently as a single article", may be true for some people, but it's
certainly not universally true.

For me, the benefits of being able to find and search all the information in
a large FAQ as a single file makes me greatly prefer non-split FAQs.

regards,
Graham

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Graham Stoney
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