bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) (12/28/89)
In a recent article, cox@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Ben Cox) writes: >If someone reading this would be willing to mail me uudecoded uncompressed >source code on any format (360/720/1200/1440k) of floppy, please email me: I >am willing to pay for your shipping/etc. costs. I'd like to add a ME TOO to that! I'd be happy to reimburse for shipping, handling, time, trouble, etc. costs. Is there any wider interest in this? Can we get get a minix user group (mug ??) going which would maintain archives and ship by snail mail at some reasonable, or even slightly unreasonable, cost per disk?
dpi@loft386.UUCP (Doug Ingraham) (12/29/89)
In article <1989Dec27.220226.24579@chinet.chi.il.us>, bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) writes: > > In a recent article, cox@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Ben Cox) writes: > > >If someone reading this would be willing to mail me uudecoded uncompressed > >source code on any format (360/720/1200/1440k) of floppy, please email me: I > >am willing to pay for your shipping/etc. costs. > > I'd like to add a ME TOO to that! I'd be happy to reimburse for shipping, > handling, time, trouble, etc. costs. > > Is there any wider interest in this? Can we get get a minix user group > (mug ??) going which would maintain archives and ship by snail mail at > some reasonable, or even slightly unreasonable, cost per disk? I have been thinking about doing this for quite some time. I have as a test sent diskettes of source to people before and it worked out pretty well. I charged $5/diskette (1.2 meg and 360k). I can't easily do 720k diskettes and I can't do 1.44meg at all. I certainly would have to charge more for the 3.5 inch because they are so much more expensive. I have archived almost all messages back to May of 1988 for comp.os.minix. I don't understand why Ben Cox would want the source uncompressed? If I were paying for this I would want the maximum compression possible. I usually tar the contents of a subdirectory into a file. Next I compress the tar file. Then I tar that file to 1 or more floppies. If there is enough interest I could set up to have pretty fast (within a few days) turnaround on orders. A 1.5 usenet postings collection seems a natural for a first collection. Please email if interested! -- Doug Ingraham (SysAdmin) Lofty Pursuits (Public Access for Rapid City SD USA) uunet!loft386!dpi