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From: Peter Vincent <peter@vincefam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: More suggestions for Acornet
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:48:08 GMT
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In message <e9606bb247%esuvf@dial1221.dialup.warwick.ac.uk> Joseph Heenan wrote:
> In message <c7c02eb247%Paula@wilmot.poptel.org.uk>
> Paula Thomas <Paula@wilmot.poptel.org.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> > 2. Requires that the application knows where the latest versions are
> > and also requires some continuing effort in keeping the list up to
> > date.
>
> This wouldn't be so bad - it could just look at the freenet site. We
> just have to persuade the few author's who don't put there software
> on there to start uploading it.
and those who have very out-of-date and now unsupported versions there to
upload current versions regularly.
[snip]
--
Peter Vincent