Subj : The next files for AA25A games.
To   : Bill McGarrity
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Mar 25 2014 12:26 pm


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...

)\/(ark

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