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Re: executor-digest V1 #216
Well, Why don't we just get someone to make space on an ftp site that has
NOTHING to do with ARDI and just tell people in the FAQ that there is an
UNSUPPORTED FTP site for HFV files. I !might! be able to arrange something like
this (but would be interested in other offers, as well). They could then be
submited and checked out by the maintainer of the area. You could even require
that the submitter use a valid email address when submitting to tie a little
responsibility to the uploads....(of course this upload area would be write-only
(no-read) to prevent software pirates from using the directory to upload and
download software before the administrator takes a look at it.....
Sean
kanesp@www.fh.org
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>From: Chris Hedberg <chrished@microsoft.com>
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 09:16:55 PDT
>Subject: RE: FTP for HFV, round 2
>
>There's been a lot of debate lately about having a user-upload HFV
>site. Cliff, would it be possible for you guys to have a "submit"
>directory, where folks could dump software. That way, you all would
>have time to verify copyright info, check that the programs work
>(minimally, anyway) and then swap them over to a user pickup _at your
>leisure_ (ha! Sorry, bad joke in your case). You could build one new
>.HFV of demos each month containing _only_ new stuff, and have one
>large one containing the sum of all the smaller ones for first-time
>downloaders and hard drive crash victims.
>We'z all out here to help you guys sell a better product. Keep telling
>us why you can't do it, and eventually we'll come up with a plan that
>can do it. Pardon me for sounding like a 50s movie extra. So, tell me
>specifically what's wrong with the above idea, and I'll get back to
you.
-Chris Hedberg
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