Re: Ohio State HTML FAQ archive is down

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Nancy McGough (nancym@ii.com)
Sun, 23 Jul 1995 22:45:13 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 23 Jul 1995, Edward Reid wrote:
> Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com> writes:
> > I think most people will agree that Ohio State is at the bottom of
> > list, but please send me your thoughts.
>
> I think you've discounted far too much the automatic creation of
> contents pages at OSU. None of the other archives provides an interface
> that even remotely resembles this.

I agree that this is a truly great thing that the OSU server does and
for three of my FAQs, which are in digest format, I almost always
recommend that people look at the OSU version rather than the Utrecht
or Oxford version. If you take a look at my "Writing Samples Page"
at http://www.jazzie.com/ii/samples.html, you'll see that I list the
OSU server first for the first three FAQs that I have listed there.
*BUT* according to the tech notes section of the OSU server, only 479
postings out of 3163 postings, or 15%, get burst into multi-part
hypertext docs. For the 85% of periodic postings that are presented
as single-part hypertext docs, I think Utrecht and Oxford are clearly
better for all the reasons I list on my faqs.html page.

> Your
> page currently does a good job of describing the capabilities, but
> falls down on describing the presentations. My recommendation is to
> improve the latter and quit trying to judge one archive over another.

Thank you for the feedback. I will try to improve the description of
the presentations. Right now, I have tried to present the features
without saying "this is positive or this negative." For example I
simply say that OSU presents the auxiliary headers but none of the
real headers. In my Web page, I've tried not to be too judgemental
about the archives - the main way that my bias comes through (and I
realize that it is fairly obvious) is by listing them in the order
Utrecht, Oxford, OSU.

Please continue to send me feedback - I'd like to clean it up quite a
bit before it appears at Yahoo.

Thanks much,
Nancy
Infinite Ink
Primary: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/
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