Re: rec.arts.sf.written Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

::: Another is that something the size of the FAQ works much better as a
::: web page (searchable,scrollable, etc.) than as a Usenet post. 

:: Usenet posts aren't searchable and scrollable?
:: I must have been misinformed.

: "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
: Perhpas I have simply never found it, but I've never seen a newsreader
: as good at both of those as a web browser. 

Or maybe I misunderstand what features are included in "scrolling"
and "searching".  To me, that's scroll bars and the usual buttons,
and the usual "search within this page" and the fact that google
indexes newsgroups.  Plus... since thundermumble... uh... thunderbird
is a news browser with pretty much the same gui-ness as mozilla/firefox,
it behaves an awful lot like a web browser, scroll-and-search-wise.
And of course many newsreaders will follow clicks on URLs in messages
even if they aren't decorated with a markup language.

So... I can't say I've noticed a deficit.  Just takes a newsreader
that uses the usual gui widgets.

That's not to say that a large FAQ *shouldn't* be on a web page,
just that I don't perceive those as reasons that it should.
My reasons would be more that it would be more referenceable
in posts; urls to specific sections, and mentining the url of the
whole thing in a posting is not prohibitive of bandwidth at all.
Plus, it could have embedded images and clicky buttons to pronounce
difficult words and such.  And filk songs; that'd be nice.


    "One word.  Thundercougarfalconbird."   --- Futurama


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