FileGate.net
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IFDC FileGate Project
Description
What is the IFDC FileGate Project?
The IFDC FileGate Project is a free distribution system, which delivers over 30 megabytes of shareware and freeware files a day to main distribution systems all over the world, at no cost for the receiving system.
How did the IFDC FileGate Start?
Originally the brainchild of Terence Milbourn, Ray Kaliss and Janis Kracht, the FileGate project was first meant to link the United States and the United Kingdom by having U.S. Robotics(c) pick up files in North America and having U.S. Robotics(c) deliver them to the United Kingdom. Further international distribution was developed by Janis Kracht, International Coordinator of the Programmers Distribution Network, and Adam Strack of U.S. Robotics USA, as an outgrowth of the success of the US UK connection.
What is the purpose of the IFDC FileGate Project?
The purpose of the FileGate Project is to make shareware and freeware files available to end-users and bulletin board systems world-wide. There are a number of file distribution schemes for getting files into the hands of end-users. Each of these schemes has communities of users it serves well, and each has communites of users it misses completely. The IFDC FileGate came into being not to compete with these distribution methods, but to feed files into all of these channels and to widen that distribution throughout the world. We wanted Authors to know that they could expect to receive the benefits of each of the distribution schemes, and because of the variety of distribution schemes, to be protected from the limitations of any one scheme. We also wanted FDN Coordinators, hobbyists who collect and organize files, to be able to concentrate on finding high quality files and to be free of the concerns, inherent in the distribution of those files. This is accomplished collecting various fdn files at one location via the internet and other means, and feeding them to a number of HUBs and other distribution systems at no cost to the receiving system.
Contact
Administrative:
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- Slaterville Springs NY
- US 14881
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- 607-200-4074
- 607-200-4076(modem)
Registrant:
- IFDC FileGate Project
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- Slaterville Springs NY
- US 14881
