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From: schear@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Schear)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Format madness!
Summary: Server needed
Message-ID: <4257@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 16:30:57 GMT
References: <5813@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> <11467@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: schear@ttidca.tti.com (Steve Schear)
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In article <11467@s.ms.uky.edu> hucaby@image.uky.edu (Dave Hucaby) writes:
>In article <5813@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> arnold@ux.cs.man.ac.uk (Toby Howard) writes:
>>There's been a lot of traffic here about various graphics
>>formats, and it's been hard to keep track of them all. 
>
>I must agree -- perhaps too much redundant traffic. Rather than periodically
>summarizing and rehashing what's come across so far, how about someone
>building up an archive of the graphic image format specs and conversion
>utilities?? This way, when someone wants to know what's available, they're
>only an ftp away from the answer!

I agree with your suggestion, in general.  However, many on these interconnected
networks cannot use ftp. I suugest, therefore, that the kind souls who which to 
perform this beneficient act instead or in addition offer a "server" function,
much like adobe does in supporting its postscript community.

The server responds to requests, via mail, for files and directory listings. It
replys, through mail, to the requestor. Unless this has security or financial
implications, I would much prefer this method.