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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Usenet in Hypertext form
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 17:50:59 EST
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Fascinating and wonderful idea.

I think the first thing to do may not be to really provide all the
software etc to deal with hypertext but perhaps to decide what
information needs to be stored and how and to provide the ability to
ignore it until the systems are fully built.

For example it would be nice if I could just enter a Hypertext
reference \(ref 1043) right into my text (probably by program) and
know that most USENET reader programs \(ref 4a.37) would just ignore
it by some simple rule (elide or interpret backslash followed by
matching parens, for example.)

Given a suitably powerful escape like that experimentation should
be able grow \(ref bzs@bu-cs:1477 (graphic 106.CFD)) unfettered.

Anyone want to propose a suitable escape? \(link 777 (file "hypernet"))

Suggestions? \(active "survey" label "hyper-escape" in-file "hquery")

	-Barry Shein, Boston University