On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Bill McGarrity wrote to Gert Andersen:

 BM> Hiya Gert....

 BM> A suggestion if I may.  Why not send to Janis just an info file
 BM> explaining to the end user where they could actually download the
 BM> game on their own timeframe rather than sending out 4-5 condensed
 BM> files onto the filebone.

why even do that if they are already available on the internet? i dare say
possiblt even from several hundred sites without being broken into
pieces... they're probably also available from several thousand newsgroup
servers...

eg: America's Army distributed in the last week...

  https://www.google.com/search?q=america's+army+game

About 45600000 results with the first one being the US Army's official site
for the America's Army game that they created and distribute... it is also
available on STEAM...

and these AA25ASSIST files? all they are, as monstrous as they are, is a
GUI client to download, and install America's Army... they do also offer
assistance playing the game but still... what's so hard about clicking on a
link to download the game from the originating site and running its
installer?

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/

 BM> Your games will still get the exposure and in all honesty, save 
 BM> some diskspace on all involved. 

the 25ASSIST files aren't even a game... besides, they've already got more
exposure on the 'net than what little bit any FTN FDNs can contribute...
[/realist]

 BM> Just my opinion.... YMMV...

same here, too...

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