dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski) (05/09/91)
bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) writes: >In article <1991Apr23.195515.21052@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Michael writes: >>Other than the technical glitches, do you like the idea of >>announcing new files on the archive here on comp.sys.mac.misc? >No, I'm getting tired of them really fast. Better to just have an index >file that people can FTP, and not bother the rest of us. >-- > Roger L. Long > bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com Personally, I like them. I don't like having to go to umich and dig around for stuff. Apparently someone straps Mr. Long into a chair and forces him to read every posting. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Dan Walkowski | To understand recursion, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | you must first understand recursion. walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu |
rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink) (05/10/91)
From article <1991May9.003802.7311@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski): I like the postings too. How about labeling them distinctly though, so those who don't want to read can avoid them. Begin all with "FTP-site". For example: FTP-Sumex: Wizbang 7.0 demo. And then there's the obvious thing, someone with the right machine can create another Newsgroup...
hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) (05/13/91)
tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) writes: >In article <1991May11.144445.4241@dhw68k.cts.com> bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) writes: >>I was questioning their usefulnes, given that someone in a position to FTP a >>file could just as easily FTP an index first. There are a number of FTP sites >>archiving various things on intest to various people. If everyone was to post >>a blow-by-blow listing of what was being added to their archives, there'd be >>room for little else on the net. > You mean like the regular, large postings about Simtel 20 on >comp.binaries.ibm.pc? The very good reason for posting a list of recent >additions to the Michigan site is that there is no new files listing. Also, The fix to that problem is to have a ls-LR and a new files list available on the ftp site, not to post to the net. I agree that the 100 lines... postings are at best annoying. >given the relatively large number of files (and directories), such a listing >does a service to those who use what has become one of the two most active mac >ftp sites in the country. [stuff deleted] >-- > Tom Maddox > tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu > "It is imperative to write invulnerable sentences." -- Hugo Ball -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who