- From: Internet Book Information Center <ibic@sunsite.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 10:15:51 -0500
- To: www-vlib@www0.cern.ch
- Cc: info@mcom.com, lou@umich.edu, yahoo@akebono.stanford.edu
All, Anyone else unhappy that Netscape has removed the VL from its Directory page? Now they only list Yahoo. This is not good considering the high % of Net users who use Netscape. (Anyone got the latest stats?) IMHO Netscape is misunderstanding the evolving nature of Internet Directories. It's clear that Yahoo has a huge comparative advantage at being the self-registering de facto yellow pages of the Internet. But that's not all there is to directories (as I'm sure the Yahoo maintainers would be the first to acknowledge); there's also a place for value-added resource selection and presentation. I think the VL maintainers have a comparative advantage in thoughtful selection and presentation of information aimed at serving a coherent user community, and that Netscape users deserve to get the benefit of our efforts! I hope Netscape will reconsider and relink the Internet Directory to the W3 VL as well as to other great subject-oriented resources like Lou Rosenfeld's Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (http://www.lib.umich.edu/chhome.html). Regards, Fred URL http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html
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