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IP: Re: A request from the Wall Street Journal


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:55:44 -0400



Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:50:00 -0700
From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta Stanford EDU>
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re:  IP: A request from the Wall Street Journal

From: "Gomes, Lee" <Lee.Gomes () wsj com>

Could you do me a favor and try to help correct the erroneous report that
MS-NBC somehow doctored a story of mine to remove some supposed
anti-Microsoft references? ,,, MS-NBC simply used an earlier version of the
story,,,,

Looks like Ted Nelson was on pint when he specified that Xanadu system
incorporate a facility for tracking multiple versions of a document.
Here's a real world case where a verisoning system that tracks the
evolution of a living document (Lee Gomes' article) would have helped
avoid confusion and misunderstanding.

        -dra



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