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From: gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Distribution of ST software on the net
Message-ID: <126@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 03:40:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 20 03:40:37 1986
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This is my first post to the net, so I hope
it doesn't drop off the edge of the world...

Like many users of the net, I've been frustrated
occasionally by garbled reception of uuencoded
software... and like many users at sites with less
than fully reliable news delivery, I've missed a
number of postings of programs (only finding out
about them when mentioned in other postings).

The point is, for all its benefits, the net is 
not a particularly effective means of distributing
ST programs.  There is unreliable reception, uudecode
does not seem to work consistently on all host machines
(and some people do not have it), and even program files
that are reliably received must be edited, uudecoded,
and finally kermited to your ST.

What I am wondering is why an alternate means of
distributing public domain software created by Usenet
users could not be organized.  For instance, a large
number of programs could be packed on a single floppy
disk which could be sent through ordinary *non-electronic*
mail.

Is this a good idea?  If there is positive feedback (posted
to the net -- I have no idea what my address path might be)
would anyone be willing to organize such an operation (since
it's my idea I *might* if the prospect is not too horrible).

GP