Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Goodbye to ftp.digital.com?
To: None <cprice@its.to>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/14/2002 17:12:21
hmm, good point.

but we just implemented a store-and-forward network which copies the 
traffic at every hop, and those along the way were merely network feeds 
for the user who's last in the chain to mirror for his personal use. We 
just happened to have lots of disk space lying around.. i happened to be 
upgrading my store-and-forward node because of unusually high 'network' 
load hehehehe
;)

seriously though, it is a good point. i suggest we certainly dont make it
very public if we mirror it. maybe somebody closer to the Hpaq could 
probe to see what they say about mirroring? 
isildur

On Tue, 14 May 2002 cprice@its.to wrote:

> 
> 	I hate to be a wet blanket, but has anyone considered the copyright
> implications of this endeavour?
> 
> 	IANAL, but mirroring it for personal use is fine I would think.
> Mirroring for public concumption could possibly be very bad..??
> 
> 	Sorry guys, but I don't want to see any of us get in shite.
> Digital/Compaq/HP have sent mixed messages over the years.
> 
> 	Cheers
> 
> 	Chris Price
> 
> Lars wrote:
> > 
> > I could try the eu site, i have a nice 100mbit connection and about 40gbs
> > left i think..
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
> > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matt wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:32:14PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > > > bummer!
> > > > well, good luck rescuing the disk, i hope you didnt lose much data from it!
> > > >
> > > > wget reports that it has finished wgett'ing all of ftp.digital.com!!
> > > > only 6.4 gigs, too. i'll start on gatekeeper momentarily.. is anyone on
> > > > the list closer to the european site, so it doesnt have to go over a slow
> > > > line all the way to the us?
> > >
> > > I can try grabbing the european site if anyone wants, I'll sneak onto
> > > a work server, 6.4GB at the most is not too bad.
> > >
> > > I've just started, am getting ~80 KB/s if that's good enough?
> > >
> > > Matt
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> > >
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