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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.061244.23837@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <C1E20D.8J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1993Jan25.045335.5949@uwasa.fi> <1993Jan26.042955.5899@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:12:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.042955.5899@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jmukher@lonestar.utsa.edu (Joy . Mukherjee) writes:
- >What can we the users do? Its seems that Garbo is really the place to send
- >source code, while Simtel is the place to send shareware/freeware type
- >programs. Is this a good rule to use, or should we send them to both?
-
- No, it is far from that simple. Rather it goes like this. SIMTEL20
- is a much more general repository than Garbo. Garbo specializes in
- some areas while leaving some others out. Among Garbo's
- specializations are
- - Quality MsDos utilities
- - Turbo Pascal programming
- - Education (we are a university)
- - Educational MsDos games
- - Mathematics and statistics (again the university in the background)
- - Astronomy related programs
- - Some special information (like my FAQs, ftp site lists, etc)
- I think this gives you the drift of Garbo's direction. It also is
- to indicate that while we carry material for some other OSes (with
- the exception of OS/2), our main lines are within the MsDos domain.
-
- Not carried at all or of lesser interest to us
- - Recreational games (these are ulowell's specialization)
- - Recreational gifs
- - Non-English utilities
- - BBS systems related material
- - All religion related material (goes also for bible utilities)
-
- There also are a few utilities which Garbo can carry, but SIMTEL20
- can't because of management policies (please let's leave this at
- that).
-
- Please observe a wish of Keith's (and mine). You are welcome to
- query about Garbo policies, because I have a definite say in them,
- even if in 99% of cases I have to discard the users' kind
- suggestions because they would involve excessive work for me.
- SIMTEL20 general policies are decided by the SIMTEL20 management and
- should thus rather not be debated.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
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