vglante@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Vigilante) (09/19/90)
Instead of starting with a gripe first, I will start with a complement. Thanks to everyone that has a part in managing, maintaining and contributing to the amiga section. I wonder if the other machines have such devoted users. Now my suggestion. As others may have experienced, the sheer volume of files in the incoming/amiga directory has made wading through a listing a time consuming task if you are searching for just the new programs, an old one you know is there somewhere, but have forgotten its name (although mget vlt*, etc does help), or you are just looking for something you have not gotten. It would be nice if there were more structure to the incoming directory. Sorting the programs into utilities, games, demos, would be quite time consuming for the keeper of the archive, so I would like to suggest that something like the following occur. Programs could be sorted on date uploaded. IE there could be a sep90 directory for programs sent this month and a xxx90 for each of the previous months this year. Once the programs have been moved into their proper directories the administrator of the archive would have to do little from then on if the contributors would put their programs into the proper directories. It would be nice if there was a listing in the main directory of what was contained in each directory. The list could be updated each month through the use of a time related script. Remember this is a suggestion, not a demand, and I would like to see other suggestions, especially better ones. If you have a complaint with my post mail me. I would also appreciate if someone could tell me how to edit my kill file to get of "RE:" messages as most of them are inane and don't contain useful information or dicussion. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard McGowen -Go Lemmings Go- Grad Student UC, Santa Cruz (source unknown)