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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
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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"
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