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Article #168Re: Million dollars a year for COMP.ARCHIVES?
From: Jerry Peek
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 06:40
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 06:40
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In article <632@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes: > Hmm. Looks like an automatic way of producing this stuff is an idea > who's time has come. There are hundreds of people who announce materials > available for anonymous FTP. If there were an easy-to-use standard form for > them to fill out on-line, I'm sure sure it could be popularized quite > quickly. > > In fact, a good standard form would help some people to decide to announce > something that they have been sitting on. Seems like a great idea to me. A form like this could be parsed to build descriptions of ftp-able software automatically. If completed forms were posted on USENET, they could supplement (replace?) comp.archives. News reading programs could search for the "good stuff." And it might help to find anonymous ftp sites that archie should list. If there were a standard form like this, what fields should it have? How could people find out about it? --Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com or uunet!ora!jerry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ora!jerry From: jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: Million dollars a year for COMP.ARCHIVES? Message-ID: <1991Jun22.064032.5571@ora.com> Date: 22 Jun 91 06:40:32 GMT References: <EMV.91Jun19020107@bronte.aa.ox.com> <632@mitech.com> Organization: O'Reilly and Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 20