Saxonia Issue 03 Part 011

Published in

· 5 years ago

  

More about internetmags 
By Rumrunner/VOID 
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I read with interest the article in Eurochart 47 where Strife clearly 
stated that he didn't want any internetmags. I couldn't agree more with 
him. 

Just as Strife suggested, if somebody are so lazy that it's too much to 
ask that they copy some files onto their computer and run them from there, 
they're simply not worthy of being a part of the scene. Afterall, how much 
do you think such people would do, besides writing one-line comments about 
productions on various voting-websites? These are people who are not really 
interested in the possibilities a specific computers gives you, either they 
are interested in networking and/or just bored and have to find something 
that they can look into and pretend to be a part of. 

Furthermore, Strife is not alone in his hate towards internet. I too become 
more and more reluctant to the system everytime I take a peek at it. Just 
like I wrote in an article in previous issue of this mag, I rarely find 
what I want, mailswappers are the ones to mostly have provided this, just 
like the HrtMON I told about last time. Also, many websites and/or ftp- 
servers seems to be run by people who only use emulators themselves, hence 
never productions seems to be of little interest. They are perhaps people 
who had an Amiga 500, before turning to pc, and perhaps they think that 
everybody just want to see the old nostalgic productions again. 

Today, it seems that everybody has to make things reachable for everybody 
who is even not interested in it. I have never seen the point in this. 
If people are interested, they will load the mag on either a real Amiga or 
some emulator. I know that I have said it before and I will say it again. 
If this is too much to ask, tough luck, they better find something else to 
do. Reachability is not always a good thing either. How many of you would 
find it interesting to have a mag up on internet, finding out that for 
instance spammers overflowed every small communicationchannel between you 
and your readers (messagepossibilities and/or uploadingfunctions). People 
want to make money on everything and I would really hate to see the day 
that mags (and I don't even like to use that word when it's about something 
found on the web) instead of cliparts had commercial banners on it. If this 
sounds stupid, just wait and see what will happen if you try out an 
internetmag.