This is similar to those on "freenets." There they can get mail _for sure_,
normaly news, and ocasionaly "test based" web access. One popular style
of "freenet" is the chebucto suite, which is based on LYNX, and just uses
the Lynx-exec feature to allow the use of Pine to read mail. See
http://www.csuite.ns.ca/ for details. (CWRU claims the term "freenet" so
many of them are called "community networks" these days)
The point is clear that as far as FAQ distribution goes, the need for an
effective way to have FAQ's mailed on request does exist.
On the other hand, it would seem (to me anyway) that the prefered method to
originate (or a least first publish) an FAQ these days is via the web for
many maintainers. I know that I just keep up the web versions of the two
that I publish, and have lynx mail me the text version when I am ready to
Post to usenet. (the web page is formated so that the text version will
show URLs and such in a format that the faqs.org scripts will in turn
convert back into hyperlinks. ) If there was a way to automate that
part.. (probaly having HTML comments in the web page code to delete that
part of the page that is connected with navagating to the rest of my web
site) ... I would suspect that some other FAQs connected with
rec.sport.skating might once again start to be posted, and would be part of
the e-mail service. At the moment that are just out on the web.
BTW
The fact that lynx (or equivent) is used in many places to pass on the
information indicates that anyone who does have an FAQ on the web should
try their page with lynx, just so that someone does not get an e-mail some
day that says
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copyright [IMAGE]
Now the trick would be to get the faq server, to keep a list of faqs, and
convert them to text from web pages, and mail them on demand.....
Charles MacDonald - Information Management
<My own Opinion unless otherwise credited>
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Original Text
From: "Imran Ghory" <imrang@btinternet.com>, on 99/03/25 04:49 PM:
To: INET[<faq-maintainers@lists.consensus.com>]
On 24 Mar 99 at 8:05, charles.macdonald@hrdc-drhc. wrote:
> My take is that there are several groups of users. Probably most comon
in
> North america is the user who has a cable/or Dial-up ISP, that has
provided
> a version of a "all-in-one" web tool like IE or netscape. Those users
have
> both news and web access.
A fairly largish group that can't get web are those accessing via BBS
gateways.
Imran
-- 'God eternally geometrizes' - PlatoEmail: ImranG@btinternet.com URL: http://members.xoom.com/ImranG/ (Lands of Terry Brooks)
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