jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard) (06/17/88)
A few people have flamed about posting a 17 part distribution to xpert, citing wasted resources, bandwidth and time. First, let me say that the distribution is in 17 parts because each part is much smaller than usual. Had I packed it normally, it would have been 9. I thought that many smaller parts would have more chance of getting through than large ones. It was also suggested that the "proper" way to do things would be to put it on expo.lcs.mit.edu. I agree, and it will be there just as soon as I can get a connection that doesn't time out. In the mean time, it's on decwrl.dec.com and ucbvax.berkeley.edu. However, none of these hosts are much use to people without internet access, which seems to be a growing percentage of xpert readers, many of which have been asking me about awm. I agree that there should be a better way of handling this. Perhaps an "xsource" mailing list could be set up that just consisted of central distribution points for each region. I.E. only one copy would get send to the U.K., one to Australia, one to the east coast, etc etc. Naturally, these cites would have to be ones that agreed to get it to their neighbors somehow and made that a well advertised fact. I'm open to suggestions. The flames I've gotten seem to be rather biased towards internet-only folks though and I'd be down on any suggestions that didn't have some provision for those without. Jordan Hubbard
david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) (06/19/88)
In article <8806161824.AA04821@scrod.ardent.com> jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard) writes: > >Perhaps an "xsource" mailing list could be set up that just consisted >of central distribution points for each region. I.E. only one copy would >get send to the U.K., one to Australia, one to the east coast, etc etc. >Naturally, these cites would have to be ones that agreed to get it to >their neighbors somehow and made that a well advertised fact. That's my little hand up waving in the air! As a non-U.S. site, it seems that I can not get access to ARPA unless I am performing some valid military function. So... I think the idea of regional storage for these programs is a great idea. I volunteer to become the main Canadian storage node for this type of stuff. I am very tired (read jealous) of those U.S. sites that say "just ftp it" as if anyone could do it. If I could ftp it, damnit I would! Mail me the pieces, I'll re-assemble, test and make available to anyone who wants to drop a quarter or make a tape. David Haynes -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- David Haynes Just another road Geac Computers International Inc. kill on the highway UUCP: uunet!mnetor!geac!david -or- david@geac.UUCP of life.
turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (06/21/88)
Now that we've got some breathing space (read disk space) and telebit
modems (RSN) I'll volunteer as an anon. uucp site for the west coast.
I think a network of non-ftp archive sites is an EXCELLANT idea.
I tried setting this up once before as a mail archive and found it
impractical, too many non-reversable addresses etc. So may I suggest
that we do this by anonymous login.
Here's to XArchive
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