Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:743 comp.sources.wanted:4784 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!pigs!haugj From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post XXX Summary: There is more to archive sites than FTP Message-ID: <236@pigs.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 18:15:41 GMT References:<222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas Lines: 40 In article <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> larryg@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Larry Gilbert) writes: >Joe Bob Willie writes, >> there are archive sites which already contain these things, please >> find a local archive. there is no need to continiously repost zoo >> every month or so. > >I agree. But there are those of us who can't ftp archives. > >Does anyone have an idea for a compromise? Maybe post stuff like that every >THREE months? There exists a large number of publically accessible archive systems. I run one (rpp386); I use one down the street, killer; and then there is uunet, oncoast, osu-cis and others. These systems are all reachable with UUCP. The cost of transporting the UNIX(R) ARC(TM) utility is approximately $27,645, assuming 132K compressed, 1200 baud communications and $9.00 per hour long distance and a distribution of 9,000 machines. [ These figures being derived, roughly, from administrivia posted regularly in news.lists. ] The annual cost of posting this four times a year is then over $100,000. For one of you to retrieve the source from a public access system, the cost is $3.07, using the same numbers. For the source to be mailed over the net, it would cost about 6 times that. Assuming 2400 baud communication will obviously reduce this cost in half. For that same $100,000, which you expect the net to spend as a collective body, between 30 and 50 THOUSAND users could retrieve that source code directly from archival sites. I'm sorry, but if you aren't willing to spend three bucks to pick up ARC or ZOO, why should Rahul bother posting it every three or four months? Why should anyone do anything if YOU aren't willing to spend three stinking dollars? -- jfh@rpp386.uucp (The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers) "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" -- Hanlon's Razor