[Scan-DC] web pages need "last updated" stamp

[Rirri@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/6/03 12:29:31 Eastern Standard Time, trunksys@pobox.com 
writes:

> This is precisely why a web page should bear a date of
> last update.
> 
> I don't know how many web pages, some even presenting press releases,
> use relative references such as "yesterday" or "last year" without
> telling you when the damned thing was written. Now how am I supposed
> to know when "yesterday" was when they haven't told me what today is???
> 
> An "updated" stamp would let the browser-person know how dated the
> info is. Although with railroads being a 150+ year-old industry
> change comes mighty slowly for them. :-)  Rest assured that most
> of those RR freqs are probably still in use as listed.

Selecting "Page Info" from Netscape's View menu will show the date the page 
was modified.  MSIE probably has a similar feature.

Rich


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