Ownership's Comments: [DECtalk] Read me file updated

[Shaun Everiss]

Hi tony and all.
Except for the red dwarf series, I doubt that anything new will apear.
ANd lets face it most of whats there is there.
There will be ocational updates, very ocational updates.
Is it worth hosting the archive?
probably for another year or two.
However once red dwarf is done and say give a month or 2 after dt8-8.mp3 is up then I think all of it should be hosted in a torent somewhere.
I don't see its future.
Unless ofcause we expand it.
Thats right.
No one has thought about this.
why the heck does it need to be a synth archive at all.
Sure some of it can be dectalk and other synths.
But waht about a audio archive.
weird audio.
Stuff that doesn't show on any other site.
Onj, i have listened to some stuff on tbrn you have done like a mix of yourchance, on a vocoder, this wasn't uploaded, but maybe it doesn't fit the bill of stuff in general.
We can have weird and usless stuff, product tracks, general fiddling.
Humour.
I mean actual humour either submitted by the list, and or others.
And we should have a stupid audio list.
I don't understand why I didn't think of it before.
At 07:07 p.m. 17/08/2005, you wrote:
>Hello Andre, Nick, list, and whoever else.  I'm not going to respond to most of this.  There is no point.  I'm not going to be in a bickering contest.  I'll just drop the list if it comes to that.
>
>Now then.  Umm, actually I have never downloaded a thing from you Andre except your web pages.  Check your logs from November 2004 if you don't believe me.  Second, you're right.  I'm not going to donate.  I don't need your complaining for my dollars.  You've got to be kidding.  Third, I basically don't care now what happens to the archive because of the constant complaining from Andre.  If it's that much of a problem, just drop it.  I've had to let archive sites go before because of bandwidth, so I do understand.
>
>I personally would be willing to take over the archive except the Red Dwarf files if it comes to that.  I have enough bandwidth that I'm not really worried about people downloading everything.  Heck, I have about 1gb or more per day in download traffic already.  The only condition is that there will be an Apache module in place to restrict bandwidth usage.  This is unfortunately necessary and would result in a slower download speed for all, but since I have been running servers off and on for quite a few years now I do understand the bandwidth issues involved and there is no way around it.  Also some of the content with prophanity will be removed, but I'm not sure what or when.
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>Andre mentioned that I don't know how to run a server.  Please look at http://investigative.net/.  I set up that server and I run it.  I am running Debian Sarge, Apache 1.3.33 and Qmail.  So yes, I think I know something about running servers.  I am not worried in the least about your threats to take away the archive.  I don't wish to run it and I don't want to be the main site for it, but I would be willing to work with Jayson to figure out something.
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>I will leave you all with one other question.  Is it worth maintaining the archive?  If I host or mirror it, is there going to be any new content?  Is there any point?   I personally think not to all the above, which is why there is no point in bickering with Andre.  The nice thing about someone else being the owner such as Jayson is that it would eliminate the unreasonableness going on.  If he wants to look at planetmirror.com, he would have the option since he would be the new owner, maintainer, or whatever you want to call it.  If none of that happens, oh well.  I have a mirror of everything as of last Oct 31 and I would probably eventually put it up for people to download.  Since domains are cheap, I might get dectalk.org or dec-talk.org if it's available.  I don't know.
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>Oh, by the way Andre, it isn't just blind people that want something for nothing.  It's almost every Internet user.  You probably don't donate to every software developer or site you use regularly either.  That's the freedom of the Internet.
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