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- From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
- Subject: Re: Bloody FTP sites!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.005612.9007@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:56:12 GMT
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- >Subject: Bloody FTP sites!!!
-
- Watch your language. FTP is a free service for you. If you don't like it,
- don't use it, but don't complain like this.
-
- In article <1e721bINNs9e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj371@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Tooley) writes:
-
- > I've been looking all over for an FTP site that doesn't delete the older
- >files as it receives the new ones. I'm looking for an FTP site that has
- >it's library, and doesn't delete it.
-
- amiga.physik.unizh.ch, thanks to a hard drive donated by the archive
- users, has stopped deleting old files. So have two of its mirrors,
- merlin.etsu.edu and ftp.luth.se. What you see there is what we got
- in the last, say, 10 months.
-
- > All the archive sites I've visitied with FTP are all the same. They all
- >seem to be mirrors of the physik archives, so what the heck use is that?
- >(Other than the physik archives being available to more people, I mean.)
-
- You'd like all those sites to be different? Then you'd have to check
- several pools if you want to find a specific file, and check several
- pools if you want to see what's new.
- The idea behind putting the same archive on several ftp sites is to
- make it possible for everyone to use a site close to his, and to prevent
- the same file from being transferred hundreds of times through expensive
- satellite links (yes, pal, internet has to be paid for!).
-
- > I've tried every site I could find. I even did a Gopher search with the
- >keyword "amiga" and wrote down every site that came up. (Not a very easy
- >task, I can assure you) then I tried them out. None are any bigger than the
- >amiga.physik.unizh.ch archives, or the ftp.luth.se archives (mirror of the
- >physik)
-
- Basically there's three sites/pools you have to know about (no special order):
- 1. Aminet with amiga.physik at the center. 300MB file base currently.
- 2. wuarchive.wustl.edu. Estimated 300MB, too
- 3. ux1.cso.uiuc.edu. Estimated 600MB in Fish disks
-
- There are others, but they're smaller and/or less popular. Check the
- bi-weekly posting on c.s.a.misc about FTP sites.
-
- If you want more, well, do your share. If everbody had your attitude, you'd
- get 0 MB at every FTP site. Upload. Wherever, whatever. Some people WILL
- like it, and maybe do their share too.
-
- -Dominik
-