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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: Re: Distributing the ZORK sources
Message-ID: <924@burl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 20:42:57 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.924
Posted: Mon Nov 11 20:42:57 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 05:02:38 EST
References: <1274@decwrl.UUCP> <251@ucdavis.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

In article <251@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (0058) writes:
>Over and over, we see the same problem:  Somebody posts a game.
>Nobody gets all of it.  Many states get none of it.  Thus, for
>three weeks, the net is full of 600 megs of hack beng shuffled
>around at 1200 baud all over the world.
>
>I propose a solution:  chain tapes.  I will initiate sending the
>tape.  I send it to site one, who reads it and sends it to the
>person I designate as site two, who sends it to site three, etc.

OK, let's see.  2000+ sites.  Let's be optimistic and say that
only 300 want it and can't get it from a nearby site.  Let's be
unbelievably optimistic and say that everyone who gets the tape
processes it the same day and sends it back out the same day.
Let's imagine a postal service that can get the tape anywhere in
an average time of 4 days (including local company mail delays,
BTW).  We now have:

300 sites * 4 days = 1200 days     -or-   roughly 3.5 years.

Don't think so.

I am on the backbone, I *always* get everything unless it is scrogged
at the very source.  I promise to save Zork in its entirety, and
I will endeavor to get it to you by hook or crook if you miss any part
of it -- you need only mail to me at one of the addresses below (after
trying your local neighbors, of course).

I also intend to blackmail people into compiling compress V4.0 on their
system so I can send them compress'd source -- this should also help
to spread compress around the net a little and encourage its use to
reduce uucp phone bills on direct shipments of source and binary.
I will not, of course, turn you down if you refuse to take compress,
but I'll be in a much better mood about it if you do.

Here's hoping [imagining] that no one will miss any of Zork,
-- 

The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291)
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