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From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
> Vetting the information you get from over the transum would be a full-time 
> job, that's for sure. I don't think a user-update-able wiki would work for 
> this at all, BUT a website with an easy FTP link would be great. People 
> out there could easily upload scans of catalogs or record labels or lists 
> they've compiled. You'd need a web host that virus-scans everything as it 
> comes in. And figure there would be a portion of incoming that is 
> inappropriate, nasty or filthy. And a large portion that's just plain 
> false and/or useless. That's the "internets" (as a former president calls 
> it), unfortunately.
>
Visiy Ty Settlemeir's (sp?) "On-line discography!" He converted the "Abrams 
Files" to
HTML, and put the results on a web site! Collectors can look at these, and 
augment
and/or correct the data therein...the eventual result SHOULD be (in theory) 
an accurate
listing of virtually EVERY 78 ever issued...?!

Steven C. Barr