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In article <1993Jan5.225844.17212@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch) writes:
>P.S. What about the NeXT community having a fund drive for the Purdue 
>archives so they can purchase more HD space? I'd contribute...


Or maybe we all have to realize that archive sites have finite resources just
like everyone else so some decisions need to be made (by archive submitters,
not maintainers) about what is archived and what isn't.  Are large sound and
image files really crucial to most folks (they occupy a lot of space relative
to their probable value IMHO)?  Are multiple versions of kermit, etc. really
needed?  Are NeXTSTEP (or I guess it was "NeXTstep" :-) 1.0 sources, binaries,
etc. still needed by most folks?  One look at the submissions directory at
sonata indicates that a lot of folks just "put" without really thinking about
these issues.  How many submissions have you unpacked that contain unstripped
executables and backup copies (~) of many of the files?  Why aren't submissions
separated into stripped binaries and source by submitters so those of us with
extended releases don't need to download large binaries?

I think a lot of the archives' problems are caused by users who don't think
about what they're doing before submitting.  The archive maintainers are
volunteers who have many other responsibilities and can't be responsible for
filtering out all the abuses that occur.
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