[DECtalk] the archive is messed up

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
I'm mentioning that one in the Readme for the archive.  Someone here told me
about it a few months ago back when I implemented the bandwidth limiting.
I had another thought.  One thing I could do is to rename the FTP directory
for the archive, thus making it inaccessible to Planetmirror, then make a
new, smaller version of the archive with only things that are free and clear
to be mirrored.  A lot would have to get cut from this new smaller archive,
E.G. Snoopi's stuff, probably some Vocalwriter stuff, Red Dwarf, etc.
That's because all that stuff is questionable from a copyright perspective.
The full archive would still be available at my site, and the abbreviated
archive would point to it.
Jayson.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up


> I bet Planetmirror downloads more than that from linux sites it mirrors so
> doubt they'd have a problem with it. That's bad they'd just delete it. I
> heard of a site called coral or something like that that's a free content
> delivery thing, they download from you once and people download from them,
> but the popularity is needed to keep stuff cached.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew Horspool" <matthew at thehorspools.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up
>
>
> > 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?  ...
> >
> >
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