Hi Folks,
Clarence Verge wrote:
> Once again, I will suggest we accept the fact that Simtel is GONE for us
> and do something about it ourselves.
I think you are absolutely right.
> It's fine to talk a bit at first, but no one is talking.
> Does that mean that only LD and I are seriously concerned ?
Nope !
> We can download all of /pub/msdos to a few hard drives somewhere and put
> at least parts of it up for worldwide access. I know where some of it can
> go. There is no need for every subdir to be hosted at the same location.
> In fact, it would be terribly unfair to make ANY of the W9x specific stuff
> available thru any organization that is supporting DOS and Linux.
I would agree with that. In any case, I don't think the W9x stuff is
in any immediate danger of extinction.
> I can find the working storage sites, but I'm not taking any of this down
> myself until I find that there are more than three people interested. ;-)
By all means, if you can get the storage space with public access,
let it happen. I am also concerned when one of the two best archives for
DOS progs. gets the chop by a pack of suits. The other one, Garbo, still
exists by the grace of a few University volunteers.
Ya never know ! This could become rather important, and even start to
attract the stuff still being written. Remember, there is a heap of
stuff out there that has never been uploaded to any of the public
archives. Even my own freeware bits and pieces only reside on my own
websites, so how much else is there that will end up with no place to
go ?
A bit down the track - could it be possible to set up an automated
newsletter of recent uploads, similar to what Simtel did before it got
de-testiculated ?
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
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