Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Subject: Re: Million dollars a year for COMP.ARCHIVES? Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 00:14:05 GMT Message-ID: References: <632@mitech.com> <1991Jun22.064032.5571@ora.com> Lines: 18 > In article <632@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes: >> 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. jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek) writes: > 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. This sounds vaguely like the MIT Lens software. Does anyone have any information about Lens? It should be, at least, a good starting point. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz