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On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Bill Densmore wrote:

> It strikes me that transmission of "bulletin" material is going to be the 
> province of "broadcasting" for a long time to come. This is because there 
> is no limit to the number of people who can listen to a news broadcast 
> (assuming they are in reach of the signal). Web sites get jammed when 
> there is unprecedented traffic. 

> Reactions? 

Yes.  I wouldn't be suprised at all if, within the next few months, PR 
NewsWire, and several of the other major wires started including both a 
phone contact and a URL in the "For more info" domain.

I can easily see mail, or IRC feeds being used to distribute headline, 
leading paragraph, and URLs to consolidators like Dow Jones and Rueters.

There's lot's of stuff out there, and providing bulletins is a very 
sensible approach.

The "Local Newspaper" will also have a popular twist.  Instead of just 
putting up content, it can access archives (WAIS, Yahoo, Lycos,...) using
context searches.

We may also start tagging (SGML?) data so that the metacodes can be 
scanned and expanded by "smart" databases that produce a web interface.

	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 02:36:21 1995