cfogg@milton.u.washington.edu (Chad Fogg) (07/26/90)
Archive-name: tv-archives/25-Jul-90
Original-posting-by: cfogg@milton.u.washington.edu (Chad Fogg)
Original-subject: New anon FTP archive site needed for TV-related material
Archive-site: milton.u.washington.edu [128.95.136.1]
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Milton.u.washington.edu will no longer be able to house the TV-related
archives shortly. This includes the episode guides to nearly 50
different TV series, the excellent troff/postscript version of the
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" guide, and illustrations and
pictures.
If you are willing to become the new Anonymous FTP site and maintainer,
drop me an E-mail message at cfogg@u.washington.edu (uw-beaver!milton.u.
washington.edu!cfogg).
I've made up a list of would-likes for the new archive site and maintainer.
(-) indicate necessities, (*) denote convenient options.
Would-likes:
- The new site musn't be excessively finiky about disk space, as the
number of episode guides et al are bound to grow. Current volume for
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" files are 3 Megabytes, the other
guides total around 2 MB.
- Decent Internet/FTP connections.
- Site has E-mail server or maintainer is willing to allow a server
to operate off his/her account (via .forward) or a separate
account. For instance, Raymond Chen's E-mail server can
automatically send files to the requester. The mail server allows
those who do not have Internet/FTP access to retrieve files for
themselves entirely by electronic mail. Chen's program requires
perl to be installed.
- Maintainer can patch updates via 'patch' command. A simple routine
on Unix machines.
* Maintainer is familiar with Troff and PostScript (TNG files).
* Maintainer has/can install psroff binary on his/her machine
for patching of the TNG postscript guide.
- Maintainer can make time to "maintain" the archives, which for
the most part entails copying, moving, and deleting files.
- Maintainer is unbiased. Say you like M*A*S*H but abhor the
Simpsons, you would wouldn't let that effect your decision to archive
a popular Simpsons guide. We wouldn't want rebel archive sites
starting up :-)
Comments and suggestions are welcome to:
Internet: cfogg@u.washington.edu
UUCP path: ..uw-beaver!milton.u.washington.edu!cfogg