Pirates Analyze Warez Groups

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Pirates Analyze Warez

 · 26 Apr 2019

  

ATTENTION GROUP MEMBERS: 

As you may or may not be aware, a new review/scoring electronic magazine  
has come into existence over the past five months.  Pirates Analyze Warez  
(PAW) published three issues in the latter stages of 1992 and is looking  
towards bigger and better things in 1993. 

The magazine will be published every second Sunday of 1993 beginning 
with January 24th and is designed to review and score each and every  
release in the period since the last release.  These scores, based upon 
aspects of quality, size, completeness, etc, will then be used to rank the 
various releasing groups as the Warez Report once attempted but in a more 
complete and unbiased manner. 

One aspect of the scoring system is to decide with group came first with a 
multiple release game (such as Comanche:  Maximum Overkill) and, after much 
deliberation, we are asking for support from the various groups in this  
regard.  However, rather than subscribe to the self-centered approach of  
requiring releases to appear on a designated board (as the Warez Report did 
and as we, admittedly, previously required), we have developed a more 
amiable system which should work out to the benefit of all. 

Quite simply we ask that a designated member of each and every releasing 
group be appointed to track ALL of the official group releases, their 
EXACT date/time of release, the boards on which they were first uploaded 
and the courier or member that uploaded it.  Such a list can then be  
forwarded to the PAW WHQ by a designated courier on Saturday if each week. 

In the case of a dispute (ie - two groups claiming release), PAW couriers 
will be assigned to contact the boards in question and request evidence  
(most likely in the form of the usage log) to settle the dispute.  If the 
logs still do not provide a clear winned, the release will be scored as 
a tie. 

It is our opinion that this system will allow groups to function pretty  
much as they normally would.  The compilation of such a list and the periodic 
delivery of such will unsure that releases are scored accurately to benefit 
both the releasor and our magazine.  We ask that the group member assigned 
to the task (as small as it is) be reliable and in a high enough position 
so as to know what got out when and to try and meet deadlines in submitting 
the list to us. 

If this system recieves encouraging support, it will provide the pirate 
community with an accurate, unbiased ranking of releases complete based on 
quality complete with reviews of the releases every two weeks.   

Replies to this request can be submitted in the form of a message to the 
PAW WHQ, A.T.B. at [416] 527-8852.  Simply log on, apply for access and  
leave the reply as a file attached to the new user application. 

Thank you for your attention. 

- Newton P. Forgery 
  01/20/93 

  Copies of this request are intended for:  DRG 
                                            FAIRLIGHT 
                                            INC 
                                            LOP 
                                            PYRADICAL 
                                            QUARTEX 
                                            RAZOR 
                                            SiNiSTER 
                                            SKILLION 
                                            THG 
                                            TDT 
                                            TRSI 
                                            UNiQ 
                                            UNLIMITED 
                                            WiLD CARDS 
                                            XAP 
   
  If any were unknowingly missed, please add and forward.