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From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: Million dollars a year for COMP.ARCHIVES? 
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 00:14:05 GMT
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References: <EMV.91Jun19020107@bronte.aa.ox.com> <632@mitech.com> <1991Jun22.064032.5571@ora.com>
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> In article <632@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes:
>> There are hundreds of people who announce materials 
>> available for anonymous FTP. If there were an easy-to-use standard form for 
>> them to fill out on-line, I'm sure sure it could be popularized quite
>> quickly. 

jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek) writes:
> Seems like a great idea to me.  A form like this could be parsed to
> build descriptions of ftp-able software automatically.  If completed
> forms were posted on USENET, they could supplement (replace?)
> comp.archives.

This sounds vaguely like the MIT Lens software.  Does anyone have any
information about Lens?  It should be, at least, a good starting point.

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