In <200201250348.g0P3mhYw024827@hagus.bright.net>,
"Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab@bright.net> wrote:
>
>It seems to me that most of these solutions are
>needlessly complex. The web was designed to solve
>exactly this sort of issue; just create one web
>home page for the FAQ that links to whatever other
>resources you like, and put that one home page
>URL in the URL pseudoheader, and you avoid the
>whole issue entirely. The whole point of hypertext
>is to collect multiple separate resources and make
>them accessible from one page. The genius of the
>web is that the multiple resources can be *totally*
>separate, produced by different authors and made
>available by different organisations, and they can
>still all be reached from one page.
>
>The only case I can think of that isn't covered
>by this is if the multiple URLs are mirrors, any
>of which may be up or down at any point. But
>I expect that is not a common situation for FAQs.
Why create a single point of potential failure? Is not the FAQ already
an object from which multiple separate resources are accessible? And an
FAQ posted to *.answers is available from multiple places (both news
servers and web sites), so why not have multiple pointers within the FAQ?
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