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WEB: The SAX - Shareware Author Index
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Claude Wippler)
Fri Sep 13 19:40:33 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 13 Sep 1996 22:01:33 GMT
From: jcw@meta4.nl (Jean-Claude Wippler)
Reply-To: jcw@meta4.nl (Jean-Claude Wippler)
Reply-to: jcw@meta4.nl (Jean-Claude Wippler)
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The Shareware Author Index(sm) is online.
http://mini.net/sax/
The SAX (Shareware Author indeX) is an Internet first! A global initiative
created by Meta Four Software and The SDN Project, SAX is an Internet search
engine and international database of all shareware authors on the Internet.
Users can search for shareware by operating system and a unique word matching
system which allows great flexibility. The index contains contact information
about shareware authors and general information about each of their products.
The purpose of the index is to allow users to quickly find author's products
and homepages on the web and/or FTP download locations.
Why download stale shareware, out of date shareware, when you can jump
directly to the author's home page and download it fresh and direct? The SAX is
a virtual index. As such, it is a collective resource, each author maintains
their own web page. The SAX is not intended to maintain volatile or dated
information such as version number and file download
URLs - it is simply a search engine that POINTS to the author's own home page.
The best place to find the latest information and version of a shareware
product - is at the author's own home page.
If you are a shareware author and you have not yet entered your own shareware
information into SAX, now is the time. Browse over to The SAX, use the search
features to get a feel of it, read the HELP pages.. and enter your own
information. Submitted entries to the database are immediate.
As The SAX is a cooperative and collective resource, please help us begin
public awareness. You may forward this email invitation to any shareware
author or shareware organization.
Link details and banner gifs are available from the [Link Me] page at SAX.
http://mini.net/sax/ SAX - Shareware Author Index
The SAX is a public service - there is no charge or fee of any kind to anyone.
Please help us, and all the authors listed at SAX, to make The SAX a valuable
Internet resource. Any comments or suggestions, are welcomed.
Jean-Claude Wippler and Ray Kaliss
Meta Four Software The SDN Project
jcw@meta4.nl kaliss@sdn.com
[for design issues] [for content issues]
[OS/2 authors are welcome and represent the third largest category on the
site according to private correspondence with the author of this post. Mod.]
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