Re: AIS: Checklists--Biting the Bullet

From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 6/12/99 9:28:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hirundo@tricon.net writes:

<<  I agree with you totally that AIS's intellectual assets should not be
 given away...I note that AHS's home page is divided into a members
 and non-members part, and if you are a member you have the password to
 access that part of the site. >>

There are quite a few like that. More analogous might be the OED on-line 
where one basically purchases access to the dictionary on-line. 

<< CDs just go back to the old problem that the data are obsolete by the time 
they are published - no different than a book >>

The data in a checklist CD will never be obsolete, but any checklist data on 
the CD will be only as current as the CD itself, by which I mean that if you 
buy your CD in 1999 you won't have any data later than that on it.  
Cumulative bound checklists also present this problem since they are only 
done once every ten years. But what should be feasible and would be 
convenient would be having all the registrations to, say 2000, on one CD.  Of 
course CD-ROM is a non-interactive mode, which won't please everyone. 

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com

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