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From: fritchie@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie; ACC @ St. Olaf College)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Computer Folklore revisited
Summary: FTP Site for most folklore postings
Keywords: FTP folklore archive
Message-ID: <1802@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 89 03:21:57 GMT
References: <1981@egvideo.UUCP>
Reply-To: fritchie@thor.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie; Systems Programmer)
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Lines: 34

In article <1981@egvideo.UUCP> timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) writes:
>>By any chance did the original person who started the whole computer folklore
>>thread actually save all the posted responses?  
>
>I don't know - it wasn't me.
>

I wrote a shell script to save all of the Folklore postings, though I
probably don't have all of them -- I thought of saving them after the first
ones were expired (I think).

>Surely you jest! All told the messages I have saved (those with "folklore"
>and the like in the subject headers) are somewhere around 2 MB! I
>doubt very much if there's enough sites between here and where you
>are that would appreciate the time it'd take to transfer a mail msg THAT 
>big.

Well, not that big.  The file I've got is 476K uncompressed.  I'm
compressing it right now and will make it available for anonymous FTP at
thor.stolaf.edu (thor.acc.stolaf.edu if you truly need the full name).
Our connection to the outside world is only 9600 baud, so the transfer will
take a while!

For those of you without Internet access, I would consider mailing it in
chunks, but I don't have the time to put it on a floppy and Snail-mail it
(sorry).

						-Scott
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Scott Fritchie, Systems Programmer, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057
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