Background information

Tracker 4.44

## A.6: History

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.

## A.7: Contact addresses

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.