> I recently made a big decision to change the ascii version of my
> Travelite FAQ. It had a long section near the end where I had an
> annotated bibliography of related URLs. After I'd stripped all the tags I
> was left with a big long list of sites that didn't have built-in links. I
> looked at it long and hard, and said to myself, "Well if they're reading
> the ascii version of this, then they might not have web access. Why am I
> providing links for people who might not have web access?"
Because they might?
I expect a lot of people to read my FAQ on usenet through a shell
newsreader such as rn, trn, tin, nn, or a PC- or Mac-based netnews client,
who might have web access.
I use trn to read news from unix, and my NetTerm terminal emulator lets me
right-click on a URL and launch it into Netscape. Similarly, I use Agent
to read news from Windows, and the version I'm running lets you hut a
control-U to scan a message for a URL and copy it to the copy-paste
buffer, to paste into a Netscape request. (I understand the current
version will launch, but I don't have it yet.)
And, while I'd never do it, webbrowsers like netscape permit reading
netnews, and readers can select a URL to go to the spot cited.
I think a lot of users reading a FAQ from Usenet would find the URLs to be
useful.
-- Terry Carroll | "Al Gore is doing for the federal government what Santa Clara, CA | he did for the Macarena. He's removing all the carroll@tjc.com | unnecessary steps." Modell delenda est | - Bill Clinton, September 20, 1996
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