Aminet was founded by members of ICU (computer science students' club) in
Zurich, Switzerland, using an A3000UX donated by Commodore Switzerland. In
the beginning it was one FTP site among many, but when the formerly biggest
site (ab20.larc.nasa.gov
)
shut down, people started adopting Amiga.physik
as the replacement. In order to share the burden both performance- and
network load wise, two mirror sites were installed. The new 1GB harddisk
donated by Walnut Creek and the user community allowed us to keep all old
files, while at the same time number of mirror FTP sites increased
constantly to currently 10. Today, Aminet is the leading Internet source
for Amiga software, giving authors a far-reaching distribution medium and
the user community a place to look for both new and old freely
distributable software.
Please direct reports about corrupt, illegal or infected files immediately to aminet@ftp.wustl.edu (do not rely on someone else doing it!). People who report a copyrighted file on Aminet get a free CD. For problems local to one mirror, check the local README's to find out about the administrator there. Some of the the people involved:
Moderators Urban D. Mueller umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu Matthias Scheler mscheler@wuarchive.wustl.edu Default contact address: aminet@wuarchive.wustl.edu
We hope you enjoy the service.