On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, James Weinheimer wrote:
> There seems to be a general amount of confusion about describing these
> "events". We need to keep in mind that we are describing objects and not the
> events, themselves. There may be various objects (web pages, books, images,
> maps, etc.) concerning an event, e.g. the festival in Texas where people sit
> around and tell tall tales.
> No matter how much we may want to place the event itself into our description,
> we cannot. We are stuck with describing the objects which deal with the story
> telling festival in Texas.
Unless of course the event is something like an IRC or MBONE session and
you can supply a URL to take you straight into the event. In that case
the object that the URL is pointing to is the event itself, not something
describing the event.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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