[gopher] Re: Gopher bot archive now available

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, let's do it like this then...

$16 ought to cover my costs.

I will accept PayPal payments of $16 to jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx through
the end of Saturday, June 30.  I will burn and box the orders up over
the weekend to go out no later than Tuesday, July 3.

This $16 is valid for continental USA addresses only.  I'll ship to your
verified PayPal address -- make sure you tell PayPal to send it along
with your payment.

This is a one-time thing.  Please don't try to buy these from me after
Saturday, June 30.  I'll be deleting the ISOs off my hard disk after I
send this batch out.

Sound OK to everyone?

-- John

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:02:04PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> I'd also be willing to pay for option #2
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> Chris
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> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:10:41 -0500
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Awhile back, I offered to send off the gopher bot archive to anyone
> > interested.
> > 
> > Well, I have finally had the time to assemble the data.
> > 
> > What I have is four DVDs worth of data.
> > 
> > The data has been tar'd, bzip2'd, and split'd.  Each image contains two
> > files, 1.9GB each.  These simply represent the underlying raw bits of
> > the tar ball.  The very list disc is smaller, but I added onto it the
> > source to my bot, the video interview with the UMN folks, and a pg_dump
> > of my database tables for the bot.
> > 
> > The archive untars to approximately 30GB worth of data.
> > 
> > Unix users can copy the split'd files to their hard disk, then just cat
> > *.0* | tar -jxvf - 
> > 
> > You'll of course need quite a bit of free disk space to do that.
> > 
> > Windows users may have a tough time processing this.  copy /b may be
> > able to concatenate the files, but then you'll have to untar and unbzip2
> > it all.  Plus, some of these directories contain colons, and may have
> > more files per directory than Windows can handle well.
> > 
> > I am willing to:
> > 
> > 1) Burn DVDs and send them free of charge to one person in the community
> > that will promise to burn and distribute them to everyone else that
> > wants copies;
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > 2) Burn DVDs and mail them for some fee -- probably $15 or $20 per
> > set -- to any address in the US for everyone that wants them.  The fee
> > would cover cost of the media, thin jewel cases, packing materials,
> > postage, and anything left over could I guess be considered to go
> > towards my time assembling it all.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > -- John
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