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In article <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu>
	anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>Background: Several people have suggested solving the archive server
>space crunch by asking users to kick in money to purchase additional
>drives for sonata and orst.  I've volunteered to collect pledges
>and to contact Purdue and Oregon State to see what they think of
>the idea.  I'll do that at the beginning of next week.  Five people
>pledged money in the first hour, six counting me.  The amounts so
>far are like $10-$20 for each server site.
>
>Respondents so far think it's a cool idea and are making other
>useful suggestions too.

I would be willing to toss in a couple bucks.  My problem, though,
is that I am not certain if I wish to donate money for disk space.
It seems to me that the major problem at Purdue is _not_ diskspace,
it is management.  I've talked to Allen (the student manager)
before, and he's a great guy, but I suspect he's been a bit busy,
lately.  Cleaning up the submissions directory would probably free
up a number of meg right off the bat.

Furthermore, one poster on the net has put forth the opinion that
they think that using a better compression algorithm isn't the way
to go, so rather than waste everyone's time, buy more disk space.
Well, yes and no.  I have no doubt that even if we purchase a gig
or two of disk space, it will soon be gone in _any_ case.  I have
a feeling that most system administrators would back me up on that
point!  In my experience, zip (or gzip) would reduce the disk needs
by up to %40, which is a pretty substantial improvement.  Furthermore,
compression is free and works even if new disk space is purchased,
so investment in a reasonable compression scheme is going to keep
paying back in the future.

So, in my view it comes down to three things, management, disk
space, and compression.  Compression is actually contained within
management, and so, to a certain extent, is disk space.  Just
throwing hardware at the problem is not going to solve it.  Of
these, I think that if we put forth the bucks to help defray
management costs, we'll get the best return on our dollar.

Later,
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scott hess <shess@ssesco.com>                        <To the BatCube, Robin>
12901 Upton Avenue South, #326  Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
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scott hess <shess@ssesco.com>                        <To the BatCube, Robin>
12901 Upton Avenue South, #326  Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!