From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 22:37:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA13473 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 May 1995 22:37:29 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA13460 for ; Thu, 4 May 1995 22:37:13 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA09293; Fri, 5 May 1995 13:32:34 +0800 Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 13:32:34 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: John Fieber cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mailing list archives on CD-ROM! In-Reply-To: <199505022054.QAA03556@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 May 1995, John Fieber wrote: > > This is good. I'll see if I can throw something together for > 2.1. Indexed files eat up space like nothing you've ever seen > (except for the USGS digital orthoquad series, 3500 CD's of jpeg > compressed aerial photographs!). "Will you want that shipped by tractor-trailer convoy, sir, or a Galaxy jumbo lifter?" :) > The fairly modest index on > www.freebsd.org sucks up a couple hundred meg. Perhaps a separate series of FreeBSD mail/news archive CD-ROM's could be pressed? Release a new one twice a year or so. That would be a blessing for FAQ maintainers. Off-topic: Does FreeBSD support those multi-tray or jukebox CD-ROM drives? > No. It uses freewais which is buggy as hell. It never worked > quite right under 1.1.5.1 and I never even got it compiled under > 2.0, mainly because of a lack of time. In another week, the > semester will be over and I hope to get the mailing list archive > back in gear. Argh. :( I hope the messages from recent months are being kept somewhere? I ask because I have a few questions which I *know* have been answered, but I didn't keep them, and now I feel stupid for asking them again so soon. But nevertheless, I'll post them to the -questions list. ;-) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org