| Posted on 30-Apr-2000 08:53 GMT by Christian Kemp | 50 comments
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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 Kent Seaton on 29-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (John L. Wehler):
Manos S. Pappas Wrote:
: You suggest that either Amiga Inc. should host Aminet or that Aminet guys
: should advertise in order to get some money.
: 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).
In other words, a Virtual Aminet? Not really where there is just one main server with all of software and several mirrors to boot but serval sites with one central search engine? That would indeed be slick. The only problem with setting something up like this would be "creeping in" of several virus infected files. One thing that I do know that Amiga is looking to setup with their developer "amiga.net" (If I remember correctly from that AW9 document) is to have the ability to allow shareware authors host a site with a way to accept credit card and check/eurocheck payments. I haven't read any more on this but that was part of the AW9 documentation on the AmigaWorld Online Zine.
John L. Wehler Wrote:
: Interesting comment, it was always a measure,to me, of the commitment of each
: of the recent owners of Amiga, that none of them was interested in supporting
: Aminet. Especially GateSuck with all their resources.
That part about "GateSuck" is not entirely true. From what I remember, they where stepping up to the challenge to do just that however it was never implemented due to the "changing of the guards" if you will. |
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