Re: comp.os.pcgeos.* hierarchy? (Re: New uploads...)

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From: John D. Mitchell
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 02:40

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In article <Jan.8.14.52.57.1993.10614@pilot.njin.net> birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes:
[...]
>The basic presumption here is that the people who asked me to e-mail them
>UUEncoded copies of things (which is not very convenient for me, in any
>number of ways) are those who can _not_ FTP, and do _not_ have access to
>AOL.  UUCP or BITnet users in Europe, in particular.  All requests for the 
>files I have received thus far have been from users in Europe.

Perhaps my meaning wasn't clear...  The big archive sites have facillities
in place for mailing packages (in multiple parts if need be).  Just upload
the files to SIMTEL and they can get it mailed to them from the mail
servers.

>Perhaps it would be a good idea to begin working toward a hierarchy now,
>so that it would be widely tested, used, and available by the time v2.0
>becomes available.

I don't see any need for all the effort of this until v2.0 is released.

Thanks,
	John
	johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU

P.S.	GeoWorks speaks for itself.

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