tony@linus.UUCP (Tony E. Davis) (07/20/88)
I have been maintaining a personal archive of this newsgroup since I began reading it. I was hoping to someday cull these articles for information useful or interesting to me. However, the day is fast approaching when I will be returning to school and will have to remove my files from the system. Before that time I'd like to find some kind soul with the time and resources to organize and maintain an archive of these articles. They contain a great deal of useful information which could be organized for retrieval by subject matter or simply by article numbers. Such an archive could also serve as a reference collection for those occasional definitive answers to questions such as 'How do I get program Y to run on machine Z?', 'Has A been ported to a B?', and 'How do I do K using program/library L?'. If you have the time, resources, and interest in making these articles available for anonymous ftp and automated email retrieval, please contact me at one of the addresses (or by phone) below. DO NOT send requests for individual articles, specific information, or a copy of the newsgroup traffic; such requests will be ignored. I don't have the time to fulfill them and I wouldn't want to subject the net to the bandwidth involved. My hope is to find an individual who can make them available to everyone via automatic email and anonymous ftp. What I have: Articles 175-4424+ of Comp.windows.x (4 Meg compressed) as they appeared on linus (a backbone site). A few primitive programs to help separate and sort individual articles. An automated archive mailer for responding to email requests (untested by anyone at this site). What I want: A kind individual with the disk space to store these articles for anonymous ftp and the time to beg, borrow, or create an automated email archive for them. Until 8-26-88: Tony Davis (617) 271-2146 The MITRE Corporation MS A114 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 U.S.A. linus!tony tony%linus@mitre-bedford.ARPA After 8-26-88: Still Tony Davis, but phone, address, and email will change: <who-knows-yet>@cs.brown.edu