Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!grapevine!panarthea!koreth From: koreth@panarthea.sun.com (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Panarthea archive Message-ID: <33895@grapevine.uucp> Date: 19 Jul 89 23:32:40 GMT References: Sender: news@grapevine.uucp Reply-To: koreth (Steven Grimm) Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Milpitas, CA Lines: 27 In article D.Tilley%ULCC.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU writes: >I have one small request: after a time - when I've collected most of what I >need from your archive - I will need subsequently to know when significant >updates have been made. Can your system tell me when these have occurred? I've gotten requests for a "binaries mailing list" in the past, but have always dismissed it as too much work for too few people. However, while I was answering the above via E-mail, an idea came to me: it is simple to set up a system to mail the sources and binaries index files to people whenever they have changed since the last mailing. People can then examine the index and request any desired files from the archive server. Is there demand for this? Send mail to autoindex-request%panarthea.ebay@sun.com if you'd like to receive these. (Note: if you can get comp.binaries.atari.st and comp.sources.atari.st, you shouldn't subscribe; you won't be getting any extra information, and you'll be wasting net bandwidth.) One caveat: when I post something like gnuemacs, all its entries go into the index when the first part is posted. However, the files don't get copied over to the archive directory until the last part is posted, which can be several days from the first post (depending on the number of parts in the submission). --- This message is a figment of your imagination. Any opinions are yours. Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st sgrimm@sun.com ...!sun!sgrimm