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- From: duane@thismoment.Corp.Sun.COM (Duane Day)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Subject: Re: WHAT ABOUT A TAPE-TREE SERVER?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 21:24:27 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- References: <1992Dec23.034157.0603600@locus.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.034157.0603600@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
- >It seems to me that the whole business of organizing a tape tree could
- >be done by a computer program.
-
- I've given such a system some thought in the past, too.
-
- >Some standard questions like equipment quality could be quantified
- >numerically, and religious issues like dolby and tape brand could
- >be matched up too.
-
- Not only that, but such a server could accept requests before a seed
- had been offered. I was thinking that it could even be programmed
- to shoot off a request to tape-heads or dat-heads when the number
- of requests for a given unseeded show exceeded a given threshhold.
- (I have a feeling that there are lots of DAT owners who'd be willing
- to make one extra DAT copy of a show if they knew they'd be making
- hundreds of netheads happy in the process.)
-
- A bonus of the single-server approach is that one server handling
- all of the net trees would be able to do sanity checks when someone
- (like me back during the MSG/Boston 91 trees) gets in over his or
- her head by signing up to make several copies each of a zillion
- shows during the same one-week turnaround window.
-
- >Somewhat simpler than having an automated server would be a program
- >that would take as input all the e-mail replies (filled-in forms)
- >that an administrator gets and make a tree out of them.
- >
- >Any volunteers out there? This could well be someone's Term Project
- >for a computer science course.
-
- Better yet, why don't we set up a mailing list for people that are
- interested in discussing or contributing to this, and make a group
- project out of it? Bob, if you'd like to set up such a list, let
- me know. Otherwise, I'd be willing to set it up on my system.
-
- peace,
- Duane
-
-