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  • New Archie Query Form

    From Sebastian P.@info@cornica.org to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sat May 17 15:30:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.vintage

    If you're enjoying a fun saturday in front of your beloved Mac OS (like I do right now!) give this one a try - a comeback of Archie:

    http://archie.macdomain.net/

    If you don't know what it is, I dare describe it as kind of a search-engine for
    public FTP servers (yep, remember FTP?). Since Google & others won't index FTP servers, they tend to fly under the radar - but it's so cool to connect to one via Fetch/Transmit and start exploring and downloading!

    From what I understand the index of FTP servers on Archie is slowly being expanded and in fact, I do see more results searching for "Macintosh" than I did
    just two weeks ago. So it might be worth to come back after some time and do another search as they keep expanding their database.
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  • From Knezzen@contact@unixfiles.org to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Wed Jun 18 10:19:27 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.vintage

    In article <info-C081F9.15304917052025@news.individual.de>,
    "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

    If you're enjoying a fun saturday in front of your beloved Mac OS (like I do right now!) give this one a try - a comeback of Archie:

    http://archie.macdomain.net/

    If you don't know what it is, I dare describe it as kind of a search-engine for
    public FTP servers (yep, remember FTP?). Since Google & others won't index FTP
    servers, they tend to fly under the radar - but it's so cool to connect to one
    via Fetch/Transmit and start exploring and downloading!

    From what I understand the index of FTP servers on Archie is slowly being expanded and in fact, I do see more results searching for "Macintosh" than I did
    just two weeks ago. So it might be worth to come back after some time and do another search as they keep expanding their database.

    I love the initiative! I used Archie way back and always thought it was
    a very intuitive way of searching FTP servers for files. Great that a
    service using it is back up again :)
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