Posted on 30-Apr-2000 08:53 GMT by Christian Kemp | 50 comments View flat View list |
This topic has recently been brought up in comp.sys.amiga.misc, but was also discussed elsewhere before. With what seems like more and more Aminet mirrors closing down or becoming very unreliable, it was suggested that Amiga should host a mirror on their site. Seeing how Aminet is a prime resource for past, present and future Amiga programs and files, I think it would be a sensible decision for Amiga to either host, or sponsor, a dedicated mirror on a reliable server with a good backbone. What do you think?
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Posted by Manos S. Pappas on 29-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT | Well, I read all the postings and they all have a common fault:
You suggest that either Amiga Inc. should host Aminet or that Aminet guys should advertise in order to get some money.
The problems are:
1. The Amiga Inc. site will shortly become overloaded with requests so it's slow.
2. Aminet CANNOT advertise while using resources (i.e hard disk space) that got for free from various organizations (universities etc). It's like selling something that isn't yours.
What WE and the Amiga Inc. should do is to "stream" Aminet into more broad shareware/freeware channels and maybe integrate it into them (like download.com or Tucows). All these sites have EXCELLENT COMPLETE mirrors that are available worldwide and not only on specific areas of the world (e.g we do have mirrors of Aminet worldwide, but the search engine runs on wustl.edu which means that if the US mirror is down, none is able to search for files).
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