motssy dinner may 30
Max Vasilatos
We had dinner again, did I mention this here? I've been
discombobulated. But as is my wont when I'm wandering around New
England, I plonked down for some seafood over at Alewife in Cambridge
and got some friends over, and was gratified to get some motssers to
come over to join me: Steve Dyer, Tony Hartman, Robert Coren, John
Gintell, Ron Rizzo... there were other folks there, and my camera
conked out, but there was another reason I called you here.
Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is now
defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and it had on
it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers that I was
rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it available to
someone to put back into the netosphere somehow. His, uh, how shall I
put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and less current as time
goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says. Oh dear.
I don't know. It was dear to me. Does anyone else care? Remember?
Ken Rudolph
>
> Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is now
> defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and it had on
> it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers that I was
> rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it available to
> someone to put back into the netosphere somehow. His, uh, how shall I
> put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and less current as time
> goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says. Oh dear.
I'd love to make my "Motss con picture site" available for any of
that. Of course I'm not technically adept. But I have mucho
gigabytes of bandwith available.
http://kenru.net/motss/index.html
> I don't know. It was dear to me. Does anyone else care? Remember?
I became active in motss around '94, though I was reading a couple
of years earlier...but spdcc.com was still available, and I
certainly remember.
--Ken Rudolph
Joe Fineman
> Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is
> now defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and
> it had on it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers
> that I was rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it
> available to someone to put back into the netosphere somehow. His,
> uh, how shall I put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and
> less current as time goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says.
> Oh dear.
>
> I don't know. It was dear to me. Does anyone else care? Remember?
I would be delighted to have it back. Likewise the BML archive from
his reign, if that is legally & technically possible.
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
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||: evidence against it. :||
Lee Rudolph
> Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is
> now defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and
> it had on it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers
> that I was rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it
> available to someone to put back into the netosphere somehow.
Some (how much, I can't easily and quickly determine; a non-zero
amount, however) can be found using the Wayback Machine, starting
from <http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://spdcc.com>. Thus, for instance,
<http://ursa-major.spdcc.com.wstub.archive.org/home/emily/.xvpics/Em.gif>
is there for the mgetting, as is
<http://web.archive.org/web/20010624081503/www.best.com/~dhpbear/dhp_pix_99/dhp_062699.jpg> ; on the other hand, fj's picture directory seems to be lost
(but I haven't tried every date).
> His,
> uh, how shall I put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and
> less current as time goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says.
That seems to be all too true for many of us, but what has it to do with
ftp databases of photos?
Lee Rudolph
Cobra Woman
Max Vasilatos <vasi...@gmail.com> writes:
>Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is now
>defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and it had on
>it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers that I was
>rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it available to
>someone to put back into the netosphere somehow. His, uh, how shall I
>put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and less current as time
>goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says. Oh dear.
>I don't know. It was dear to me. Does anyone else care? Remember?
I certainly remember it and it was dear to me as well.
--
Cobra Woman is Mara Chibnik
Panix - m...@panix.com Personal - ma...@panix.com
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Joe Fineman
> is there for the mgetting, as is
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20010624081503/www.best.com/~dhpbear/dhp_pix_99/dhp_062699.jpg>
Mmmm, I'll mget them anytime. WOOF!
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: Did you think dandelions were pretty when you were four? :||
||: What changed your mind? :||
Greg Pratt
Max Vasilatos <vasi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is now
>defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and it had on
>it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers that I was
>rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it available to
>someone to put back into the netosphere somehow. His, uh, how shall I
>put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and less current as time
>goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says. Oh dear.
>
>I don't know. It was dear to me. Does anyone else care? Remember?
I enjoyed looking at it in the 1990s, as it gave me some connection
to people whose names I saw in soc.motss. In the days before the
proliferation of the WWW, that FTP archive was the best way to do it.
I have a snapshot of the archive, which looks as though it was last
updated in October 1995. I don't know if the file dates match up with
what was on the FTP archive, but most of the files are there through
that date. The "oldest" file, by modification date, is from April 1990.
--
Gregory Pratt g...@panix.com
East Rutherford, NJ, USA http://www.panix.com/~gp/
"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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Max Vasilatos
> Max Vasilatos <vasi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Steve Dyer used to have a server system, called spdcc.com, which is now
>>defunct, that he hosted as a courtesy for some folks here, and it had on
>>it an ftp database that had a bunch of photos of motssers that I was
>>rather fond of. I have been imploring him to make it available to
>>someone to put back into the netosphere somehow. His, uh, how shall I
>>put it, materiel, is apparently, becoming less and less current as time
>>goes by, and possibly even weathered, he says. Oh dear.
>>
>>I don't know. It was dear to me. Does anyone else care? Remember?
> I enjoyed looking at it in the 1990s, as it gave me some connection
> to people whose names I saw in soc.motss. In the days before the
> proliferation of the WWW, that FTP archive was the best way to do it.
> I have a snapshot of the archive, which looks as though it was last
> updated in October 1995. I don't know if the file dates match up with
> what was on the FTP archive, but most of the files are there through
> that date. The "oldest" file, by modification date, is from April 1990.
THAT'S **IT**! For heaven's sake, park it somewhere public and tell us
where it is, man. You're a retrospective genius. I give you a virtual
smooch and call you Einstein through the ether.
Or at least, it sounds like it. I can't imagine what else it might be.