Re: 2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards...

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From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
Subject: Re: 2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards...
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DEAN RUNZEL <s0222353@MONCOL.MONMOUTH.EDU> writes:
>
>I guess the meat of this post is : stop whining and waiting for the gov't.
>to spoon feed us. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your gov't. can
>do for you, but what you can do to help your gov't. and others.
>
I don't exactly know as we were "whining" but given that you are
probably in the same situation as many of us (doing more with
less) I can see how you might get to feel this way.

I think my original point about this was that getting the
documents via FTP would be a heck of a lot easier/cheaper/faster
than the traditional routes of requesting them from our Tech Pubs
department or librarian. (not to mention that you get a clean
copy instead of an Nth generation xerox!)

I can't imagine that even the government could be so far behind the
times that most standards wouldn't be in some kind of machine
readable form. Once you've got it in a word processor format, it
seems to me to be a near trivial task to do an FTP and put it on
a public site. (Oops! I forgot about needing to form up a
committee, do a feasability study, write up a report, get
official sanction, etc., etc. Things aren't any different here!
;-)

I like the idea of putting them out on wuarchive.

Pax,
Marin

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer    ATT:        407.796.8997
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