Re: Archie... again...

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From: Tom Minchin
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:00

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rwi@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Ross Irvine) writes:

>I think it's about time something was done to actually fix this for good.
>The amount of times I've "tried" to use archie, but couldn't because of this
>error, or disk failure is ever increasing...
>Comes on telstra, provide a service that WORKS...

How about turning it off? Archie (both the index) and "Archie" as in the
file archive both seem to be stagnant in Australia. Instead of wasting
all this disk space on ancient history, how about converting it into a
WWW proxy/cache?

I can remember when archie.au was useful, some 3 years ago...

>Btw: This is not telstra bashing, note the mobile number below, a telstra
>service.. :)

Tried to contact you earlier, number isn't connected anymore :)

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Date: 1996/06/10
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