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From: adjones@mcnc.UUCP (Amy D. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: With friends like these....
Message-ID: <503@mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 22:21:25 EST
Article-I.D.: mcnc.503
Posted: Thu Jan 15 22:21:25 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 20:44:35 EST
References: <1112@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <227@mcdsun.UUCP> <2125@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: Our users group does this already



In article <2125@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Mike Meyer says:

-> One of the things I've been thinking about doing is going through all
-> the disks you distribute (and any other PD disks I can get my hands
-> on), finding and classifying the most useful programs, and then
-> rearranging things so that 1) each disk only has programs of one
-> class, and 2) the most recent version of each program was on that
-> disk.
-> . . .

Our users group (ready?...Amigoids Anonymous--There I've said it.) already
does what you described--sort of.  We actually share the library of another
users group (AURA--Amiga Users of the Raleigh Area) who does this.  We take
all the PD stuff we can find (mostly Fish & AMICUS material) and categorize
it onto various disk types--currently Demos, Games, Utilities, Applications,
How2 (how to... files), and Nets (Usenet news).  We have not culled out all
of the things that don't run, but we do replace old versions of a program
with any updates we find.  As the AA librarian, I plan to propose to the
group that we do what you said--that is, include only the useful programs
in our library.  We distribute the AURA disks by mail at $5 each.  I suppose
I could upload a copy of our directory along with ordering information as
soon as I get a chance.

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