From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199509181421.PAA14772@server.netcraft.co.uk>
Subject: Re: -d | !-d ? <-
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:21:17 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <9509181406.AA00304@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> from "Beth Frank" at Sep
 18, 95 09:06:59 am
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In reply to Beth Frank who said
> 
> One other motivator for simplifying the format, is that more and more of the
> people trying to set up webservers are not very familiar with Unix or the Web.
> We get a fair amount of mail from users whose boss has told them to set up a Web
> server and they were chosen because they were Unix users at some point in time.
> (eg. I recently had to explain to one webmaster what a symbolic link was.)
> 

Exactly. These are the kind of people I'd like to see things aimed at.
Unix hackers and web coders may not like it but the web is now a basic
business tool and if you want Apache to win over Netsite then it needs
to be a doddle to get a basic setup working.

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