Re: new WWW news.answers archive

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Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@shock.njit.edu)
Fri, 20 Jan 95 09:59:30 EST

> The plain ASCII and USENET versions of the Linux FAQ don't work well
> when an attempt is made to turn things that look like URL's into
> links, because I haven't included URLs of any of the FTP sites etc.
> into the text. They're present in the HTML version, but the actual
> text says something more human-readable, like "on sunsite.unc.edu in
> /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO".
>

In my FAQ list (only six parts but soon to be split again) I've decided
to include full URL's. The reason is twofold:

1. It clearly indicates where a given file or document is. When
I just wrote English text I was more than a little sloppy about
including all path and site information.

2. At least one popular newsreader, NewsWatcher, and probably others
will retrieve a URL merely by selecting it and Command-clicking on
it. This makes full URL's VERY useful in news postings since when I'm
be reading news and read about an interesting document or file I can
just click to get it rather than manually opening my ftp client,
typing in the name of the site, and navigating all the way down to
the file.

Elliotte Rusty Harold

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