[DECtalk] the archive is messed up

[Matthew Horspool]

Hi,

Woe, it's got big!  Back in the andrelouis.com days it was only 450 MB!  My folder is 2 GB exactly, but I still have the jokerdog 
and talking dictionary stuff so that's an irrelevent figure.  Then again, I have the software in a separate directory as it's a 
programme and I don't want to run programmes in "f:\default user\dectalk\public\software", so that might counteract the additional 
files a bit.

I never use the Planet Mirror, primarily because I downloaded everything there was back then from andrelouis.com, so I just add bits 
and suffer the 8 KBPS limit whenever something's updated.  Actually, now I come to think of it, I used to just sync jayson's FTP 
folder with mine, but then gave up because nothing was added for a couple of months.

I'm now hosting my DECtalk files on
ftp://thehorspools.bounceme.net:21
but this server is just a home Windows PC on a home LAN which can't be left on all the time.  You should get a good 30 KB/S, though. 
If the server doesn't work, please wait a few hours and try again.  Sorry, but this is the best I can do at the moment.  I can't 
host a web copy because:
1.  I don't know how.
2.  My ISP won't let me.

NOTE: this is not the DECtalk archive - it's the archive plus some additional bits.  In short, it's not a mirror, but it's got all 
the stuff.  I don't intend to become a mirror, although I'll keep downloading what's new.  Mirroring, though, means deleting as 
well, which I honestly don't want to do.

Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up


Hi,
... I have a few questions pertaining to Planetmirror.  Now that they have completely deleted the whole archive, with the exception 
of exactly one relatively unimportant and tiny file, what do we do?  Are people actually using the Planetmirror copy?  I really hate 
to put that much of a bandwidth drain on my system at this time.  The archive, as it stands now, is over 1.4 gigabytes.  At less 
than 30 KB per second that's going to take a *long* time to download all over again!  Plus, it might bring the "questionable" nature 
of some of our files to their attention when they're suddenly downloading tons of stuff from the archive.  If someone else has the 
bandwidth and is willing to privately mirror the archive that might honestly be a better option.  What do you think?  ...