- From: BearHeart / Bill Weinman <bearheart@bearnet.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:53:24 -0600
- To: www-talk@w3.org
At 11:14 pm 1/13/96 -0700, Israel del Rio spake: >I do not think the question is whether people can learn the meaning >of the URL, I just find it it morally abhorrent to force grandma or And you don't find it "morally abhorrent" (gads!) to force an entire international networking community to conform to a new standard just to make American advertisers' job a skosh easier. >grandpa to understand what, in the end, are UNIX file system conventions. What's unixish about "http://www.yahoo.com/"? I'm confused here. I don't see that there's any problem to be solved here. Businesses appear perfectly happy to put the technical-looking "http://www.foo.com/" in their ads, and Ma & Pa Kettle seem perfectly willing to type it into their Cray-VII Notebook computers. Where's the problem? +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BearHeart / Bill Weinman | BearHeart@bearnet.com | http://www.bearnet.com/ | Author of The CGI Book -- http://www.bearnet.com/cgibook/
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