Re: FAQ file

Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu>

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 13:48:23 -0500
From: Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Message-id: <9303101848.AA18814@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu>
To: Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: FAQ file
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>Is there a need for an entry point into the web that isn't part of the
>web?  By that I mean something for the bazillions of people who don't
>know about WWW yet, but who do read news.  This would be a periodic
>post on news.answers, comp.infosystems.gopher, comp.infosystems.wais
>and alt.hypertext, and would explain what the web is and how to access
>it.

Well, we are getting very near the point where we should do a Call for
Votes on the creation of comp.infosystems.www (I'd say we've reached
that point).  Once we get our newsgroup, then we should consider something
like that.  Didn't someone out there mention that they would handle
the voting?

     tom