HTML not so evil (was Re: Eudora Replacement)

[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:38:54AM -0400, Gordon Marx wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:30:28 +0900, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> > I think it would take the average web administrator 10 minutes to set
> > up a location on the web server to dump the documents into, password
> > protect it, and teach the secretary how to access it.  Setting up a
> > more robust, general-purpose solution can, I think, be done in under a
> > day.  There are probably even existing solutions that can be set up
> > quickly and easily...
> 
> To say nothing of the fact that having the sec'y point everyone at a
> central location makes it _MUCH_ easier to ensure versioning, backup,
> etc. etc.

Indeed.  

Oh, I neglected to mention that I have worked at a company which did a
lot of document distribution (similarly to) this way.  No one ever
seemed to have a problem with it (except when it stopped working)...  

The differences were that a) it was used only for in-house
distribution, though there was no reason in principle it couldn't have
been used for external document publication as well, and b) our users
didn't use a web interface (though they could have -- one was
provided) but instead used a proprietary client.

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