ftp archives disappearing?

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Mon Mar 19 17:29:52 CDT 2007


Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> There is a curmudgeon-y vibe to most old computer restorers; they make 
>> things available online, but get mad when people leech the entire site. 
>> I don't understand that mentality, because doing so ensures another 
>> offline backup.  Saying that people should only take one or two things 
>> as needed doesn't help when the site suddenly goes away due to illness 
>> or death, especially if it was the only repository for certain things.
> 
> I will be happy to backup your site, over and over, repeatedly, every single
> file, to make sure that your site will never go down. I will also ask all my
> friends to do so. That way we will all have a backup.

That is excellent.  And, because I have QoS for my services, you will 
not be impacting me in any way.  We all win.
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