Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:57:04 -0400 From: Charles K Green <greenc@rl.af.mil> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <34213330.5954C8E1@rl.af.mil> References: <199709172245.IAA00439@word.smith.net.au>
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You left one out:
- Those who work for the gov., are short on resources, and hate
waiting 3 months
for the government paperwork to get finished so we can purchase
it.
Mike Smith wrote:
> > > They've split it into smaller files. Thank God.
> >
> > I don't think I'd be interested in doing this, but I might be willing
> > to just put the raw images that I use up for FTP. The way I see it,
> > if you're a sophisticated enough user that you're burning your own
> > CDROMs, you're smart enough to use ftp reget if your connection dies
> > in the middle. ;-)
>
> The only people I see actually finding this useful are those that are :
>
> - sophisticated enough to have a CD burner and some hope of driving it
> - too short on resources to cut their own release
> - too stupid to wait a little while and *buy* the damn disk when it
> is released by WC
>
> I think we could save these three guys some effort by buying them a
> beer and stealing their hardware.
>
> mike
>
> 8)
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