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Hello Roy - 

CA>> I was just thinking that you, Roy, and others here in the
CA>> tech echo should collaborate on a website about batteries.
CA>> Seriously. 

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RJT> That's an interesting thought... 

RJT> First thing I'd do, though (and I probably will, at some
RJT> point) is to get on the 'net and see what's out there
RJT> already, first. Which is an awful lot! 

RJT> I got on yesterday, snagged a few things here and there,
RJT> and have spent a bunch of time trying to digest stuff
RJT> today. 

RJT> Those folks who compared trying to deal with the 'net with
RJT> trying to take a drink out of a fire hose weren't kidding. 

There are many webpages but all of it is not information. The
one thing that was repeated over and over again in college was
"Qualify your sources". 

On the WWW it is almost impossible to do. Any kid can write up
a webpage and put anything on that webpage representing it as
proven fact. The person viewing that page has no way of knowing
they are reading text from a child's perspective. 

Add that the WWW is very disorganized and you can waste a
lifetime 'learning' wrong information and waste hours/days
searching for that wrong information. 

Search engines 'search' in the most trivial manor possible to
increase their speed of execution so that finding the experts
and sorting them out from the kids webpages is left as a manual
exercise for each person attempting to locate the information.
:-\ 

In the way-back machine when I was sig section leader for
telecom on the CoCo sig for Compuserve it was my 'job' to
verify the information that was uploaded and test the software
to determine if it did indeed perform 'as advertised'. When any
of this was wrong based on my opinion I could make it invisible
to others temporarilly while I discussed this with the person
who uploaded the information or software. Quality control was
based on many 'editors' who watched the flow of information
each day and had the power to censor and/or delete bad
information. 

There is nothing like that on the WWW unfortunately. :-\ 

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