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- From: patrickd@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lazer)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
- Subject: syrinx.umd.edu FTP is a MESS!
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:25:11 GMT
- Organization: Gizmonic Institute
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- I was just using the syrinx.umd.edu FTP site (the mst3k directories of course).
- I want to mention what a pile of crap it's become! Here's why:
- 1) Someone uploaded a file that won't fit on High Density Disk! Therefore
- if anyone wants it, they have to download it (if it were smaller, I could
- easily just pop a disk in the computer system and take it in 2 seconds!)
- I hate BIG files!
- 2) There are 4 different sound formats. I posted the first sounds (.voc)
- then someone else decided to post .au Then someone else posted .wav files
- which were uuencoded (the .au's weren't!) And now there are Mac sounds
- compressed with BinHex and StuffIt. I haven't looked in the Mac files
- yet, but I suspect there are some duplicate sounds! Maybe someone should
- take the sounds and put them in ONE format and post them back. (I'll
- do it but only if all the others are removed...)
- 3) There's a copy of all the pictures in .gif and .jpg format. That's
- plain stupid. Keep them in .gif...any computer that can read .jpg can
- surely convert from .gif (same is NOT true in reverse).
- 4) There are a TON of files in the incoming directory...
-
- Who's the moderator there? Who's in charge?
-
- As I said, I'd help clean up the sounds by putting them all in the same format,
- but the sounds that aren't in that format should be killed.
-
- What's everyone's favorite format? I prefer Macintosh sound...but I'll be
- happy if I don't have to hunt all over creation for 8 different sound
- converters!!!
-
- Phew...that's it...for now.
-
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