On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Warren Young wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:49:31 -0600
> From: Warren Young <tangent@cyberport.com>
> To: FAQ-Maintainers <faq-maintainers@lists.consensus.com>
> Subject: Necessary level of FAQ accessibility in the year 2000
> Sender: bounce-faq-maintainers-1424@lists.consensus.com
> My FAQ is for Windows network programmers. Surely they are in the top
> 1% of the current Internet population?
>
> Anyway, my FAQ works with Lynx. You don't even need PPP access for
> that, just a shell account somewhere on a machine that can run Lynx.
> That rules out who? The remaining 500 people stuck behind a UUCP
> gateway?
The Internet isn't everywhere (yet) and the fringe is very large.
Many develloping countries have only a small Internet backbone.
I think uucp is still used a lot. Technical faqs must be
of immense value for people who don't have the money to buy
textbooks etc.
> = Warren Young, maintainer of the Winsock Programmer's FAQ at:
> = http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/programming/winsock/
regards.
Henk Penning
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