Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 13:32:34 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: John Fieber <jfieber@cs.smith.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mailing list archives on CD-ROM! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950505132615.8963B-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <199505022054.QAA03556@grendel.csc.smith.edu>
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On Tue, 2 May 1995, John Fieber wrote:
>
> This is good. I'll see if I can throw something together for
> 2.1. Indexed files eat up space like nothing you've ever seen
> (except for the USGS digital orthoquad series, 3500 CD's of jpeg
> compressed aerial photographs!).
"Will you want that shipped by tractor-trailer convoy, sir, or
a Galaxy jumbo lifter?" :)
> The fairly modest index on
> www.freebsd.org sucks up a couple hundred meg.
Perhaps a separate series of FreeBSD mail/news archive CD-ROM's
could be pressed? Release a new one twice a year or so. That would
be a blessing for FAQ maintainers. Off-topic: Does FreeBSD support
those multi-tray or jukebox CD-ROM drives?
> No. It uses freewais which is buggy as hell. It never worked
> quite right under 1.1.5.1 and I never even got it compiled under
> 2.0, mainly because of a lack of time. In another week, the
> semester will be over and I hope to get the mailing list archive
> back in gear.
Argh. :( I hope the messages from recent months are being kept
somewhere? I ask because I have a few questions which I *know* have
been answered, but I didn't keep them, and now I feel stupid for
asking them again so soon. But nevertheless, I'll post them to the
-questions list. ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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