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- From: uteca041@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Henning Sauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: to be or not to be
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.101301.13348@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 10:13:01 GMT
- References: <schwager.728013412@mike.cs.uiuc.edu> <C1HMMt.FtI@fishpond.uucp> <1993Jan27.165027.28450@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld
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- In article <1993Jan27.165027.28450@cbnews.cb.att.com> itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
- >In article <C1HMMt.FtI@fishpond.uucp>, fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) writes:
- >> In article <schwager.728013412@mike.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
- >> >Given Fred's announcement, I don't know what we can reasonable expect from
- >> >Netoids.
- >>
- >> I don't know either, and it's a little early to tell. The future of the
- >> library is literal in the hands of the users. So far I've had commitments
- >> from three or four individuals or user groups to establish a subscription,
- >> and Hypermedia Concepts has committed to donating a certain amount per
- >> month (above and beyond their subscription) to cover some of the overhead.
- >> I should know in about two or three weeks whether the response will be
- >> sufficient to make it worthwhile to continue with the library, or put
- >> a freeze on new subscriptions and just produce about one batch of disks
- >> a month for the next 5 or 6 months and then shutdown the library, refunding
- >> any money left from current subscriptions.
- >
- >Fred,
- >
- >If you haven't done so already I think you should write to all the Amiga
- >mags and let them know what's happening. Certianly they should recognise
- >the impact you have had on the Amiga community. You might get a few
- >articles about Fish Disks, raising the public awarness and hopefully
- >increasing your subscriptions. The word needs to get out to thre rest
- >of the world, as most people that hang out around here have access to
- >the library via FTP and such are are less likely to subscribe than people
- >who rely on the mags to stay current with the Amiga scene.
- >
- Here in Germany all Amiga mags publish the contents of the disks in German.
- Did they have a subscribtion?
-
- Henning
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- Henning Sauer
- Universitaet Bielefeld - Technische Fakultaet
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