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Article #176Re: Disappearing Dispatches
From: Paul Copsey
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00
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In <3390c508.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>, Malcolm Muir <malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> wrote: > Paul Copsey (paulc@hectortd.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > I suspect you know (or could probably work it out), but I'll remind > > you. The Aminet one, /pub/mirrors/aminet last updated in Oct/Nov on > > ftp.demon, and never really got anywhere near complete. > > Ah - The one you were told was not complete and would be announced > when it was complete ? Yeah, and we've waited how many months to bring the subject up again? > Well it has not been announced as complete > for the very reason it is not complete. I _know_ it's not complete, I was wondering if it ever would be. > We still have insufficient disk space to carry it. And didn't have the bandwidth before that, ISTR pointing out that a full mirror of a very large site wasn't needed, just the last few weeks uploads would have sufficed. > Perhaps I should delete the files that are already there ? Yeah fine, it's a waste of space as it is, we'll just carry on using the US site, it's the only one really worth using. It would have been nice to have had a local copy of at least the most recent stuff, but if that's the feeling, then go ahead. I suppose it was fairly unlikely in the first place. Paul -- I have a screen capable of displaying the first 34 lines of a post at once, If I can't see any new text in those, I move on.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,9ba6af13a60ecef2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 11015b,118fa01c691afac2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11015b,public From: paulc@hectortd.demon.co.uk (Paul Copsey) Subject: Re: Disappearing Dispatches Date: 1997/06/01 Message-ID: <970601.045422.127@hectortd.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 245464680 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: hectortd.demon.co.uk [158.152.66.42] References: <auczvAAwH1dzEwt2@amster.demon.co.uk> <NdDKxNAFB8dzEw82@dickalba.demon.co.uk> <AF9E6DFA966818B227@petermc.demon.co.uk> <oo3lFIBAiLezEACp@turnpike.com> <199705160023361021926@pwomar.demon.co.uk> <ABw$$RAacCfzEAdY@turnpike.com> <338d3e5c.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> <970529.204405.204@hectortd.demon.co.uk> <338e9061.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> <970531.143400.573@hectortd.demon.co.uk> <3390c508.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> Followup-To: demon.service Organization: the Island of Lost Souls Newsgroups: demon.service,demon.ip.support.amiga