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- From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard)
- Subject: Re: Bloody FTP sites!!!
- In-Reply-To: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:56:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <VINSCI.92Nov21211825@nic.nic.funet.fi>
- Sender: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard)
- Organization: Soft Service, Inc.
- References: <1e721bINNs9e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov19.005612.9007@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 21:18:25
- Lines: 53
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- In article <1992Nov19.005612.9007@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller) writes:
- > 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.
-
- ftp.funet.fi (also known as nic.funet.fi) doesn't delete old files
- unless there's a reason (new version of the file, illegal file,
- replaced by another). To my knowledge, this has always been the
- policy here.
-
- > > 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.
-
- To find a file, nothing beats using archie. To find new files, you'll
- have to collect info from several places, like comp.archives and the FTP
- sites themselves (good ones have files that lists recent files in various
- flavours).
-
- > > 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
-
- ftp.funet.fi has about 780 MB of Amiga related material, including
- fish disks #1 to current.
- We do have the files from aminet as well, but they are organized
- according to our own directory hierarchy, and they are examined before
- made available (we try to avoid spreading viruses and pirated software
- here).
- This site also have lots of other information stored (around 8.5 GB
- in total right now).
-
- > -Dominik
-
- -- Leonard
-