So, how big ARE the archives?

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From: Paul Joseph Mitchell
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:54

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Hello all,
   
First, this is more of a trivia sort of "I'm interested" question.
    My room mate and I the other day were having a discussion about some
of the major ftp archive sites around, such as wuarchive, simtel 20,
garbo, cica, etc., and the point came up about exacltly how much storage
space these ftp sites have on-line, available to the user.  There's such
a vast quantity of programs and information on these sites, we were just
wondering exactly how big they are.  I know that simtel at least has to
be around 600 megs or so, because of the periodic CD-ROM of the archives
that is released now and then.
    Again, just curiosity.  Thanks for any replies.

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