ontinued development, there is no reason to believe that all academics and students will not eventually learn to use the internet access tools. Still not everyone has jumped on the WWW bandwagon. For various reasons, some technical, some political, some economic, and some motivational, many still only have access to email. This restricted interface to the internet was the reason that we originally decided to offer the EJS in a WWW version, a Microsoft Word 6.0 RTF [17] file, a windows help file version, and an ASCII version available by Listserv. However a number of design and logistical problems forced us to restrict the number of formats to two. In particular we were concerned about the difficulty of mapping a standard product to too many different formats. Most of this concern arose out of the need to provide a standard reference between versions so that a reference like (Fox, 1995: 7) would direct the reader to the same passage in each version. Unfortunately, we were unable to uncover an easy and systematic procedure to provide this absolutely necessary service for the various formats we experimented with.CredibilityIf permanence and accessibility are largely becoming NOTES in the history of electronic publication, the credibility and acceptability of electronic publication is not. In part this is due to the numerous internet doomsayers who constantly jabber about the "dangers" of the anarchic internet. Crawford, for e.g., seems worried about the very real possibility that some fraud will publish an updated and improved periodic table of the elements on the internet and that this updated table will somehow be accepted by the world at large as the new lingua franca of chemistry. Crawford (1994: 29) also seems concerned about the potential use of the internet for propaganda. A neo-Marxist crank could create an impressive news bureau and be taken quite as seriously as a major news agency, even if that crank made up the supposed news fl...
