geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) (12/03/90)
Archive-name: comp.archives/sites/cs.toronto.edu/1990-11-29 Archive: cs.toronto.edu:/comp.archives [128.100.1.65] Original-posting-by: geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) Original-subject: Re: Usenet sites Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Ed Vielmetti: >* the comp.archives archives on cs.toronto.edu:/comp.archives, which > have probably scooped up most of the usenet archives sites mentioned > in the past year Please do not just blindly copy the entire subtree. Within Canada, CA*net (sort of the Canadian internet) is too slow (typical link speed is 19200 bps) for bulk copying. Our connection to the rest of the Internet (e.g. the US) is via "the wet piece of string" (or its identical twin) at 64kbps, which is again too slow for bulk copying, given that all of CA*net and Bitnet in Ontario and points West share those two pieces of string. (Yes, the situation is supposed to get a little better Real Soon Now; we are apparently waiting on incompetent phone companies.) -- Geoff Collyer utzoo!geoff, zoo.toronto.edu!geoff