From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 17 15:47:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA16433 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16423 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00439 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:15:09 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709172245.IAA00439@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM image In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:47:21 MST." <1056.874522041@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:15:05 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > They've split it into smaller files. Thank God. > > I don't think I'd be interested in doing this, but I might be willing > to just put the raw images that I use up for FTP. The way I see it, > if you're a sophisticated enough user that you're burning your own > CDROMs, you're smart enough to use ftp reget if your connection dies > in the middle. ;-) The only people I see actually finding this useful are those that are : - sophisticated enough to have a CD burner and some hope of driving it - too short on resources to cut their own release - too stupid to wait a little while and *buy* the damn disk when it is released by WC I think we could save these three guys some effort by buying them a beer and stealing their hardware. mike 8)