Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Re: New version of my ftpd is now available In-Reply-To: cmf851@anu.oz.au's message of 16 Jun 91 09:26:11 GMT Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.archives.admin Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI References: <3661@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <1991Jun16.092611.15695@newshost.anu.edu.au> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 05:43:41 GMT Lines: 39 In article <1991Jun16.092611.15695@newshost.anu.edu.au> cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) writes: I have been working on some software (originally by Tony Moraes, supplied by Ed Vielmetti) which relies on using ls -alR to obtain a That would be Mark Moraes, please make sure you give him proper credit! Other than that small detail, your changes sound like they're working in the right direction. Just to be sure that there's not a zillion versions of Mark's so far otherwise unreleased code floating around, it might be best not to post these scripts all that widely to the net. Further substantial reductions in traffic could be achieved by providing larger capacity cache and mirror sites and locating them more at national and regional gateways that have expensive links to the rest of the internet. Well, that's a nice thought, but I don't believe that you're going to get any substantial amount of funding for that purpose any time soon, at least not from public sources. They seem to be more interested in subsidizing bandwidth, not building applications which would add value to the network and help people use it. On this side of the Pacific we're starting to hear the T3! T3! T3! chants, as if simply transporting more bits around would make the network better. Compare the cost of T3 lines with the meager resources being thrown at (or not thrown at) archivist work and other projects designed to add organization to the net, and it's rather discouraging. -- Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, emv@msen.com "(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational and training software; " "High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"