[DECtalk] the archive is messed up

[shaun everiss]

I havn't used planetmirror.
can you tell us the http link incase those that havn't doodled with 
the site for a while forgot?
At 08:06 a.m. 13/10/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>It's all fixed now.  Seems that back when I made a new directory, I looked
>at the permissions and said to myself, "Now all that stuff doesn't really
>need world execute permissions, now does it?"  The next command I typed was
>"chmod -x *".  Of course what I totally forgot was that the directories do,
>in fact, need execute permission so that Apache and FTP can change to them.
>So it's all fixed now, but 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?
>Because of these concerns, I have turned off my FTP server so Planetmirror
>can't get in.  However, the archive is now once again accessible via HTTP.
>Jayson.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Matthew Horspool" <matthew at thehorspools.com>
>To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:44 PM
>Subject: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just thought I'd let you know that the DECtalk archive exists, but is
>forbidden.  This not only messes up people that use the
> > master server, but it also messes up Planet Mirror - because plannet
>mirror is getting 403's and 550's all the time, it thinks
> > there's nothing there, so it's now deleted all the files out of all the
>directories in the DECtalk archive, leaving empty shells.
> >
> > As a side note, I think this happened when Jayson created the new
>directories (September 24/5).
> >
> > Jayson, could you please fix this?
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
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