telnet indexes -- keep 'em or ditch 'em?

[Walt Howe]

At 02:50 PM 8/23/1997 -0700, Jim Stemper wrote:
>- does it cost more from our vendors to offer users both web and telnet
>indexes? (ie, will IAC charge us for both?  I have not yet been able to get
>an answer to that around here... >:-|  )
>- do ref staff want to (potentially) be prepared to teach 2 versions of the
>same thing?
>- do auto sys staff want to support 2 versions?
>- does the telnet version offer features not offered in the web version?
>(we're still not sure if anything is missing in FirstSearch web)

The answer to your questions is pretty clearly YES, NO, NO, NO. My
suggestion is to give up any thoughts of maintaining telnet access, but be
sure that your information is lynx (the text-only browser) accessible and
doesn't depend on frames, image maps, complex tables, or Java.





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