Re: Why no Apple II AOL FTP site?

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <01bbaa11$078456a0$e7f30c26@cd003508.interramp.com>,
Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com> wrote:
>I've never been a member of AOL. I'm curious what the AOL archives might
>have that aren't available among A2-Genie's nearly 12,000 Apple II files? 
>Whatever might fit that description should certainly be saved.
>
>I don't know how many megabytes the Genie files might be, but a printout of
>the library list runs over 400 pages...

Actually, as someone who's never been a member of Genie, and probably
never will be, I think that most of AOL *and* Genie archives should
be made available.  Yes, there probably are lots of things duplicated in
both of those archives as well as the internet A2 archive.  But those that
are unique and are public domain, freeware, shareware, etc. should be on
the Internet where everyone can reach it.   The same idea should apply to
CompuServe, Delphi (is it still around?), etc.

John

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