Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!att!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: archive sites Summary: Atari archives could use supplementation Keywords: automatic public uucp ftp Message-ID: <1989Nov8.234846.1453@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 8 Nov 89 23:48:46 GMT References: <1707@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> Reply-To: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 16 Tad Guy expressed an unwillingness for xanth to be 'just another' archive site for Atari ST stuff. There exist several unique niches to be filled. What exists now is an 'automatic' archive of comp.sources/binaries.atari.st at panarthea which is very well connected, but operates only in mail-response mode, and an ftp-only archive with greater coverage, but in which article names are not guaranteed to match those given by the moderator, at terminator. The obvious unfilled niches are an 'automatic' archive reachable through ftp and a mail-response archive containing the large and/or obscure items now available only from terminator. The uucp and mail-response archive that used to exist on killer seems to have been phased out on attctc (but if you haven't checked them lately, do so: other parts of their collection have expanded wonderfully). Another empty niche is a BBS with an explicit connection to the ST newsgroups (the IBM PC newsgroups have something like that). And however guilty I feel to say it, I'm not volunteering to set up any of these, but there are the opportunities to be a unique resource. Steve J.