[DECtalk] Announcing the new DECtalk archive

[Jayson Smith]

Hello,

     I now have a page giving a link to the new archive location. This page 
will come up when anyone attempts to go to www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk or 
retrieve any file in any folder, valid or not, within the /dectalk directory 
on the website. This is not an instant redirect to the new archive, since I 
want there to actually be human response before Tony gets bombarded with 
bandwidth usage. You will just get a page with two links. The second one 
goes through a public dynamic mirroring service which might, over time, 
provide better performance and relieve some of the bandwidth burden.
     Once again, I enjoyed running the archive as long as I did, and I'm 
sorry I am no longer able to do so.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:00 AM
Subject: [DECtalk] Announcing the new DECtalk archive


> Hello all,
>
> It is with great sadness that I announce that Jayson Smith is officially
> no longer in charge of the DECtalk archive.  For those of you who don't
> know, it was originally started by Andre Louis and eventually taken over
> by Jayson Smith.  Due to bandwidth and cost issues, he is no longer
> running it, at least for now.  As some of you might also be aware, I've
> wanted to take over the archive for a long time for several reasons.
> The first is that I currently don't have bandwidth issues and I have
> lots of disk space.  The second reason is that I would like to do some
> reorganization.  Finally, I've wanted to run the archive for my own
> interest because I have always wanted to be an archive maintainer.
>
> So, therefore, I am now the new archive maintainer.  I've moved the
> archive to my server and all appears to be working.  Everything should
> be current as of when Jayson shut public access to his archive down.
> While there are still things to be fixed and while I'm sure there are
> bugs, it is accessible again to the public.  I still need to do
> something about the README file and work on some sort of home page, but
> it's good enough for now.  To access it, go to:
>
> http://dectalk.goldenaudio.net/
>
> Note that there is a bandwidth limiter in place, so downloads will be
> very slow.  I'm sorry about this, but I see no other choice for now.
> I'm actively seeking archive mirrors.  Most residential connections will
> not work, but if you have a high speed connection and rsync access,
> please contact me.  The bandwidth usage is about 70-75 GB per month.
> The archive requires 1.6 GB of disk space.  If you're interested, please
> let me know and I'll make arrangements.
>
> Currently, uploads are disabled.  I will again allow uploads once I
> figure out the best way to handle them, but for now you can't upload.
> If you have something for the archive, either contact me privately or
> wait until I can get ftp working.  I'm thinking a special ftp account is
> probably best.  Also, don't try to download everything with an automated
> download manager or mirroring program.  If you do, your IP address may
> be blocked permanently.  There are measures in place to make sure no one
> can grab everything at once.  Besides, it would take an eternity because
> of the slow download speed.
>
> If you're still reading, here is another site which might give better
> service, but no guarantees:
>
> http://dectalk.goldenaudio.net.nyud.net/
>
> If you have any questions or comments, post them here or contact me
> privately off list.  I'm in the process of setting up a special email
> address for DECtalk related matters, so for now probably this list is
> best.  Thanks to Jayson for keeping the list around and running the
> archive for years.  I wish him the best of luck and hope to keep him as
> a friend and co-maintainer.
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