[gopher] Re: Gopherspace archive

[Jeff <geph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:53:42 -0700, Alessandro Selli  
<dhatarattha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> John Goerzen wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:38:47PM -0500, Benn Newman wrote:
>>> What is the status of the archive of Gopherspace John was creating?
>>
>> I have it, but it's about 40G and I have nowhere to host it.
>
>    WOAH!   That much?
>
>> It is a flat directory structure, basically host/port/selector
>>
>> I would be happy to tar.bz2 and burn it to DVD-Rs or something and
>> snail mail it to anybody that wants it.  In fact, I hope somebody
>> *does* want it.  It would be bad if only one person had a copy of
>> this.
>
>    Did anyone try 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/)?  I read it compresses  
> files
> better than Bzip2:
>
> http://www.freedb.org/
>       Posted by joerg on Saturday, April 08 @ 20:56:00 UTC (462 reads)
>       [...]
>       As previously announced, we dropped the rar archives
>       and offer 7-zip-archives instead now. We have not
>       dropped the .tar.bz2 for the freedb-complete archives,
>       yet, but we plan to drop them next month, since they're
>       so much bigger compared with .tar.7z. If you really
>       need the .tar.bz2 archives instead of .tar.7z, please
>       let us know why.

Bring out your RAR, put them in a pile, and set them on fire.   
WOOOOOOOOOOoo.


-- 
Jeff