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Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:24:11 -0800 |
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While looking for an RFC document today I discovered:
http://www.faqs.org/
Which not only collects/mirrors something like 3300 FAQ documents and all
the RFC standards documents, but they also HTMLize them and provide complete
keyword searching across the entire (200MB) archive.
This is another of those truly amazing resources on the Internet. FAQ
documents usually do a startlingly good job of distilling down an area
of knowledge into just the bits that really matter, with probably the
highest signal to noise ratio you will see anywhere.
Being able to search across the entire concentrated knowledge of humanity
(well, ok, USENET, which isn't *quite* the same thing) at once is pretty
neat.
One minor problem though. The comp.sys.hp.mpe FAQ isn't there. Probably
because the actual FAQ document itself doesn't get posted here, but only
pointers to it. Perhaps a mini-faq (looking enough like a FAQ posting
to trigger the collection software) could be posted here occasionally
containing a link to the real document on the web.
G.
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