jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva) (09/21/88)
Here's a long-overdue announcement of a Minix archive that I run for
people without net access:
I run a PC-based Electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) that has
carried the traffic of Usenet's Comp.os.minix steadily since August,
1987. Early this year I started providing a formal Minix archive,
similar to the archive on bugs.nosc.mil. I have been providing this
service for those who are not lucky enough to have net or ftp access.
The BBS is not a true gateway to Usenet, like some Fidonet nodes are;
rather it is a "delivery service" whereby new comp.os.minix articles
are gathered daily and posted as messages on the BBS. Long articles
are automatically ARC'ed and posted to the file area for downloading.
I keep the raw traffic around for about 2 months.
At around the 15th of each month I edit the previous month's traffic
to keep articles of lasting interest, which I post in the archive for
that month. I divide the month's archive into several ARC files, all
less than 100k, to make downloading easier. For any given month, the
index of articles is in MNXyymmA.ARC, and the actual articles start in
MNXyymmB.ARC. You can just download the index, then download the ARC
files that contain articles of interest to you. A complete index is
always in MNXINDEX.ARC.
The archive starts with August, 1987.
Call:
The Mars Hotel BBS, (301)470-3569 (PC-Pursuitable)
300,1200,2400 baud, 8,n,1.
No registration required, no donations accepted.
Everyone gets 60 minutes/day.
No upload/download ratios (but don't be a jerk!)
Spread the word to those without net.access.
- Jaime
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usenet: uunet!mimsy!jds James da Silva
internet: jds@mimsy.umd.edu
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