Two messages.--------------Johnnie ---------------------------------------------------------- : Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:51:31 +1100 : [log in to unmask] (Alan Jones) : Re: Help Wanted Well said Alice and Joan. I wrote something similar in a GIS newsgroup and was not well received. Internet should only be used for these sort of queries when other searches have drawn a blank. Student supervisors should also take responsibility for pointing their students in the right direction. Instead many seem to be willing to accept the credit, but pass the work onto other through Internet. Internet is an amazing resource, but let's not abuse it. Alan Jones, email : [log in to unmask] Department of Geography & Planning, phone : 067 732430 University of New England, fax : 067 711787 Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] : Fri, 17 Feb 1995 08:26:00 -0800 : Re[2]: Help Wanted Joan, Agreed. common problem, apparently, usually handled by building a "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ) page on the server. it operates as a "virtual" map librarian (such a librarian should be multilingual). we could develop a collective one using your response below and leave it on a homepage somewhere, and register it with the universal FAQ finder http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html. I have not looked one over for style/content but it would be a distillate of observations like yours. we could refer people to it rather than answer the same questions repeatedly. LC