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From: abc@BRL.MIL (Brint Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APPLE2-L
Message-ID: <8808072124.aa05541@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Aug 88 01:24:24 GMT
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Tom Metro writes,

>   One of the bigest problems I personally have with APPLE2-L is that I can't
> subscribe to it so I have to request files from the archives based on the
> information given in the INDEX...
> The problem is that the
> descriptions given in the subject (which are listed in the INDEX) usually
> don't contain enough information.

Then he wonders about creating "description lists," etc.  

I suggest taking the easy way out:  One who posts a program to APPLE2-L
should describe the contribution in a few lines or a paragraph and post
the same to Info-Apple/comp.sys.apple.  After all, Info-Apple is for the
dissemination of information of interest to users of Apple II-class
machines.  Available software is certainly of interest.  Descriptions of
posted routines should be just long enough to answer the questions Tom
raises but not so long as to clutter mailboxes.  Keep them under 1000
characters, and I'm sure the "net" will welcome them.

Folks?

_B