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From: johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu
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Subject: Re: Cooperating on Sys7 distribution
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Date: 10 May 91 15:05:15 GMT
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Cooperating on 7.0 distribution is a great idea.

In article <FRANCIS.91May10000430@arthur.uchicago.edu>, 
francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes...

>What can we do here? Obvious thing is *wait a while*.  

That would be nice, but ... I was thinking along the lines
of an e-mail distribution tree -- assuming that's OK with Apple.
I also agree that it would make sense to put "mirror" copies
on other sites, but even with that there will be a logjam.

At present, no one knows what form the release will take.  There
are six HD disks images in the version I've seen.  Compressed
they run from 1200K to 800K.  Any volunteers to organize a tree?

Any other suggestions (besides abstinence from ftp-ing) that
could cut down a potentially crippling ftp load on apple.com?

-- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)