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- Here's my two cents worth:
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- Subject: RFD: comp.infosystems.www
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- Date: 18 Feb 93 20:39:46 GMT
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- Tom Fine writes:
- >> The purpose of this group will be to exchange information and ideas
- >> regarding the use, design and development of the World Wide Web, and
- >> the information in the Web.
- >>
- >> World Wide Web is an information system which is hypertext based. It
- >> will currently interface with both WAIS and gopher systems. Future
- >> plans include a move toward the use of MIME documents. There are a
- >> number of applications already in place for using this information
- >> system.
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- Thank you for proposing the WWW group. Let me know when
- you plan to vote.
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- I agree on the name of the group (comp.infosystems.www).
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- I agree that part of the purpose should be discussing the
- use, design, and development of WWW (double-ewe three)
- and discussing what information that is/will be/should be
- available in the Web.
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- I would also like to see:
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- * Announcements about what software is available, how to get
- it, how stable it is, who worked on it, where to report
- problems to or get help from, etc. I realize that this
- information is also in the Web itself -- perhaps someone
- can come up with a tool which automatically groks the
- appropriate portions of WWW hypertext and posts it once a
- month the comp.infosystems.www, for those who don't
- already have the ability to get to the Web but who are
- interested in it?
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- * Discussion of how to package WWW software so that it is
- trivial to build and install on as many platforms as
- possible, including Macintosh and other microcomputers?
- By "software", I mean:
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- 1) WWW hypertext browsing clients,
- 2) WWW hypertext servers,
- 3) WWW hypertext preparation tools -- utilities &
- clients which make it possible for a non-technical
- clerical staff person to write and provide
- information in the Web.
-
- There are also gateway programs to other sources of info
- (e.g. FTP, NNTP, TechInfo), but they don't necessarily
- have to run on as wide a variety of platforms as the
- three types of tools above. But they should be easily
- installable by a Unix sys admin type person.
-
- * Discussion of comparisons between WWW and Gopher as well
- as other CWIS technology, both on a technical level and
- on a non-technical level. For example:
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- 1) What functionality do you get from WWW that you don't
- get from the other cwis info systems?
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- 2) Are they competing or complimentary technologies?
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- 3) Why has Gopher caught in the Internet on while WWW has
- not?
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- 4) How can folks working on WWW make WWW more accessible
- to people who are not part of the High Energy Physics
- research area -- how to target a bigger audience so that
- if there is something worthwhile in WWW but not in
- Gopher, someone else beside me and a few others will know
- about it!
-
-
- Clearly I think that WWW has more to opher than Gopher
-
- (whoops, please forgive my spelling, I meant 'offer'! ;-)
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- LAM
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- Linda A Murphy Internet: murphy@dccs.upenn.edu
- Network Engineering Data Communications and Computing Services
- University of Pennsylvania (215) 898-9534
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