repost of all stories

[Joshua A. Laff]

Sometime in the near future I plan on doing a mass-reposting of all of the
stories I have in my archives. Since I know people are presently leaving
school, I'd like some feedback on when people think the best time to do this
would be. Also, since I have almost 1600 stories right now, I would also like
input on how many I should post a day (or, in the other form, how long I
should spread this process out over). Any feedback would be appreciated.

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Joshua A. Laff, CRL operator, UofI (217) 384-6249
email to: la...@cs.uiuc.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
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Disclaimer: If I were speaking for the UofI, I wouldn't be paying tuition.

[Kindred Spirit]

la...@cs.uiuc.edu (Joshua A. Laff) writes:
: Sometime in the near future I plan on doing a mass-reposting of all of the

: stories I have in my archives. Since I know people are presently leaving
: school, I'd like some feedback on when people think the best time to do this
: would be. Also, since I have almost 1600 stories right now, I would also like
: input on how many I should post a day (or, in the other form, how long I
: should spread this process out over). Any feedback would be appreciated.

:
was wondering if the re was any annon FTP site to get these.

Thanks in advance.
~ZZ
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[Joshua A. Laff]

q6...@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Kindred Spirit) writes:
:)la...@cs.uiuc.edu (Joshua A. Laff) writes:
:): Sometime in the near future I plan on doing a mass-reposting of all of the
:): stories I have in my archives. Since I know people are presently leaving
:): school, I'd like some feedback on when people think the best time to do this
:): would be. Also, since I have almost 1600 stories right now, I would also lik
:): input on how many I should post a day (or, in the other form, how long I
:): should spread this process out over). Any feedback would be appreciated.
:):
:) was wondering if the re was any annon FTP site to get these.

No. By archives, I am referring to those available via the e-mail fileserver
I run. Except for cracking my password, this is the only way to get them.

[nob...@nowhere.org]

Don't threaten us, we may repost the 3400 that we have :)
P.S. And they ain't the first times, we're talking fifty something megs.

[Joshua A. Laff]

nob...@nowhere.org writes:
:)In article <C6z0q...@cs.uiuc.edu> la...@cs.uiuc.edu (Joshua A. Laff) writes:
:)>should spread this process out over). Any feedback would be appreciated.

:)Don't threaten us, we may repost the 3400 that we have :)
:)P.S. And they ain't the first times, we're talking fifty something megs.

I'm sorry... I should have said any insightful feedback.

[nob...@nowhere.org]

Here are a few hints for you to get the idea:
You take this business too seriously.
We don't need massive reposts (or at least in these quantities).

And think about some numbers:
How many stories are there in the Finnish archive?
How many days does it take to get them given the 100K/day limit?
How many stories can one read in one day?
How many days are there until you graduate?

If you post at 100-500K/day we'll drown in the flow, if you post 2-3
stories/day it will take forever and at any rate we'll see an equal flood
of repost requests with a one-week delay compared to the main stream. If
a few of the stories happen to be under 3K, we'll see the return of
you-know-whom. If any of the stories are in more than one part, we'll
have random reposts of individual parts forever.

What the a.s.s newsgroup needs is the thirty seven chapters of the
Thomas story whenever another repost is requested, until they learn that
there are other ways to get stories except reposting them ad nauseam.

[Frans Kleijweg]

NO>Don't threaten us, we may repost the 3400 that we have :)
NO>P.S. And they ain't the first times, we're talking fifty something megs.

Yes please. Our 600Mb + harddisk is craving for that kind of stuff.
Please start today or tomorrow. We love'm. Fill her up please !
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* OLX 2.1 TD * Frans Kleijweg aka LIBRARIAN@STR || klei...@sterbbs.nl

[Frans Kleijweg]

[Paul Stacy]

Back when I was in the archiving business, I tried to make about
15 posts at a time (15 including parts of large stories). I
tried to post 2-3 times a week as work allowed me time to do.

(I wish my hard drive hadn't eatten all my files!)

(A retired crazy archivist)

Paul "Joe Friday" Stacy (not net.police) Buffalo State College, New York
STA...@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (Buffalo State College VAX) JUST THE
jfr...@marie.stat.uga.edu (Univ. of Georgia (Athens) UNIX) "VAX", MA'AM!
aa...@freenet.buffalo.edu (Buffalo FreeNet)
Disclaimer: This isn't the opinion of the school, police, Chief of Detective
Staff Brown, Planet Spaceball, Starfleet Command, or the Pentagon.

[Kelley James]

jfr...@helena.stat.uga.edu (Paul Stacy) writes:

> Back when I was in the archiving business, I tried to make about
> 15 posts at a time (15 including parts of large stories). I
> tried to post 2-3 times a week as work allowed me time to do.
>
> (I wish my hard drive hadn't eatten all my files!)
>

Hey! I *sell* hard disks for a living..... I'm employed with a disk
drive broker!

If you're interested in an HD Drive, send me mail at
kell...@silicon.relay.ucm.org

>
>
> (A retired crazy archivist)
>
> Paul "Joe Friday" Stacy (not net.police) Buffalo State College, New Yor

> STA...@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (Buffalo State College VAX) JUST THE
> jfr...@marie.stat.uga.edu (Univ. of Georgia (Athens) UNIX) "VAX", MA'AM!
> aa...@freenet.buffalo.edu (Buffalo FreeNet)
> Disclaimer: This isn't the opinion of the school, police, Chief of Detective
> Staff Brown, Planet Spaceball, Starfleet Command, or the Pentago
>

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