Intranets
The growth of internal Web networks (Intranets) may give readers on those networks the opportunity to make changes to the actual document, blurring the reader/author relationship to a great extent. The only requirement for readers to make such changes is to be given access to the files on the server. Anyone with access to the document files can make changes and those changes can be seamlessly available at the same URL (egos might get in the way of such sharing of authorship, but it is possible). However, on a network as vast as the Web, freedom to change documents is necessarily a good thing. In many cases, information on the Web is provided by experts for a specific purpose (for example, some software companies have made manuals available at their Web site); since the process of verifying documentation goes through a rigorous testing procedure, it probably not wise to let anyone make a change: many users might be adversely affected by inaccurate information.
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