FTP upload site (Was: Re: List behaviour)

[Jay West]

Jules wrote....
> I think it'd be nice if a classiccmp FTP server was just for "temporary 
> stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else" - rather than a permanent home, as 
> permanent homes probably already exist in most situations. (but does that 
> imply that it'd be useful for classiccmp to act as some kind of search 
> engine / registry for niche sites* out on the 'net?)
>
> * some of which would probably still be classiccmp-hosted, I suppose.
Thanks Jules, good insight.

In retrospect, the classiccmp server already offers boatloads of ftp space 
where new entries would more than likely be stored by the respective site 
maintainers.

I think it would be best for the list to just offer a "90 day automatic 
delete" ftp site, specifically to address the case where someone posts a 
schematic, etc. to the list given that the list doesn't allow it (so that 
people aren't forced to dload something they have no interest in). That way 
every list member would be able to post a download address for something 
mentioned in a post. If one of the many other sites out there (or on the 
classiccmp server) want to archive that item before it's deleted, so much 
the better.

Jay