Re: faq-maintainers book
Ron C. Carman (rccarman@netcom.com)
Thu, 18 May 1995 23:13:53 -0500 (EST)
Joseph Creighton wrote:
> NETguide is a magazine in the U.S. which has come out with books on various
> topics: NETmoney, NETgames, NETtrek, etc. The material published is not
> the FAQs or lists themselves (although there are some excerpts for the sake
> of interest), but instead they give pointers to the original host site as
> well as other archive sites (AOL, Genie, Compu$erve, gopher, ftp, etc).
>
> It may be in our interests to contact these people and ask if they want to
> put out a book on FAQs to create this comprehensive listing of locations for
> any FAQ officially put out into the ether (their web and mail addresses are
> in each book, but I don't have them here at work to pass on).
Since you've mentioned NETtrek, this is where I can get into the
conversation... <g>
I've browsed most of the NET* books you mention; I've scoured
thorougly NETtrek. As a general rule, I've found these books to
be hacks similar to the "Internet White Pages".
On point, however, NETtrek is little more than a listing of
places where people can go to find "cool stuff", the vast majority
of which infringes _someone's_ copyright. They even go so far
as to give a site where one can find (or rather, could find;
the site was quickly shut down) a copy of the bootleg _Star Trek:
Generations_ script. IMO, if we are concerned with hanging onto
control of our own work, allying with a company that has so little
regard for the intellectual property of others would be a very
poor decision.
Ron Carman
Maintainer, _Star Trek Actors' Other Roles FAQ_
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