Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!rcj 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 Lines: 41 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) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj