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Started by Michael McCulloch
Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:58
Source for USENET archives of comp.sys.next
Author: Michael McCulloch
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:58
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:58
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I like to maintain a monthly update to my Digital Librarian indexed version of comp.sys.next newsgroups. I have been using nova.cc.purdue.edu (or sonata), but the maintenance of these archives is really slipping. For instance, the hardware, advocacy, marketplace, and software groups have not been archived since they were started. Some of the Current files in those newsgroups are several MBs. Also, recent archives of the other groups are not compressed, because year old versions of the same files are still around. (I've posted a friendly message to the archive management to no avail). Anybody have an alternate sight with current maintenance and anonymous ftp access for the comp.sys.next newsgroups, preferably on a monthly basis? Thanks, Michael McCulloch Huntsville, AL 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...
Re: Source for USENET archives of comp.sys.next
Author: Art Isbell
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:29
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:29
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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. -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
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