- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- Date: 02 Oct 1997 01:12:03 +0100
- To: jptxs@idt.net
- Cc: walter@natural-innovations.com, www-html@w3.org
could you possibly explain this to my boss? she's been doing our
organization's *newsletters* for 5 years :-)
Show her http://www.ucc.ie/doc/www/markup.html
Ask her:
1. how to search all past newsletters for references to a topic
and return just the article in which the topic was mentioned?
2. what will become of the organization's information base when the
manufacturer of your current product technology changes course
or goes out of business?
3. what she would do if the IRS lawyers or the FBI wanted proof
that she had or had not published something in one of the
newsletters, and how she could identify it?
4. if she is aware that (a) possibly 25% of the organization's
market may not be able to read the Web copy of the newsletter,
and (b) unless it adheres to some form of HTML, it may be only
half readable by the very large blind contingent using voice
boxes?
I am taking the liberty of assuming (from unhappy experiences)
that it's been exported from a non-HTML system and is therefore not so
much HTML as a random assemblage of tag-like objects masquerading as
HTML.
But if the material in the newsletters has a very short half-life,
then it may simply not be worth the effort of doing a durable job on
them for the sake of the few readers they will have. But this is
conjecture: I'd have to see a copy to make a real judgment.
///Peter
Received on Wednesday, 1 October 1997 20:12:02 UTC