From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 18 07:03:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA07441 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from poseidon.iwt.rl.af.mil (POSEIDON.IWT.RL.AF.MIL [128.132.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA07432 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rl.af.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poseidon.iwt.rl.af.mil (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA11640; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:57:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <34213330.5954C8E1@rl.af.mil> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:57:04 -0400 From: Charles K Green Reply-To: greenc@rl.af.mil Organization: Information Warfare X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM image References: <199709172245.IAA00439@word.smith.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You left one out: - Those who work for the gov., are short on resources, and hate waiting 3 months for the government paperwork to get finished so we can purchase it. Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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)