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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: Does this group really exist
Message-ID: <775@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 88 16:15:07 GMT
References: <3468@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <757@brandx.rutgers.edu> <870@cos.COM>
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In article <870@cos.COM>, smith@COS.COM (Steve Smith) writes:
> In article <757@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
> >...  To approach the nitty-gritty details
> >of hypertext, we seem to lack two things: a common implementation of hypertext
> >and a body of information to contemplate the hypertexting of.  
> A body of information to "hypertext"?  You're looking at it!  Seriously,
> net news has most of the attributes that would make a hypertext system
> valuable.  Consider - news has ...

The connection of articles in news is unclear (the links established
by the default news software are generally bogus due to the fact that
so few users actually have software that lets them use these links
effectively that they don't bother maintaining them).  At 2.5 meg a day,
a hypertexted version of usenet is a bit large to post into this group for
discussion.  While these issues are fun to contemplate, I think something
more restricted is actually capable of implementation and experimentation.

But if you would rather talk pie-in-the-sky toys and wasting hypertext database
room with graphics (did apple really write hypercard as a ploy to sell more
hard disks?), feel free.  Even such discussion there has been precious little
of in this group.

----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)