Re: Lets keep the web together
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Tue, 1 Dec 92 12:15:42 -0800
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 12:15:42 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-Id: <9212012015.AA22660@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>
Cc: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Lets keep the web together
In-Reply-To: <9212011804.AA24775@pixel.convex.com>
<9212011804.AA24775@pixel.convex.com>
Dan Connolly writes:
> You can't use any of the parts without using the whole thing: you
> can't use the parser unless you use the HText data structures,
> including the HTMainText global variable! [...]
I have to agree with this as a negative assessment. Trying to figure
out how to deal with the library hasn't been very much fun.
> Again, we see the need for a CSCW platform.
Well, for what it's worth, the server running on
hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80 will accept the ANNOTATE command as proposed
in a previous message of mine, and I can send the patches to enable
this (as well as modify the linemode browser and library to provide
annotation functionality) to anyone who wants them. A more complex
system is certainly desirable, though.
> I think that if we archived the www-talk mailing list, and built an
> HTTP server that would serve the articles up with hypertext links
> between folloups etc, it would be a good start.
>
> If I code up a server in perl that can do this, will somebody
> provide disk space and network access?
I would, but it already exists:
http://eies2.njit.edu:80/wmail.html
Dan, if you want to do a mailing list archive also, contact me and
we'll set it up...
Marc