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From: wlipa@oracle.oracle.com (William Lipa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: comp.mac.binaries (Info-Mac alternative?)
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.015830.16740@oracle.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 01:58:30 GMT
References: <3514@husc6.harvard.edu> <126900136@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1032@crash.cts.com> <1932@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Reply-To: wlipa@oracle.com (William Lipa)
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In article <1932@tellab5.TELLABS.COM> wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman) writes:
>It was mentioned on the net before but there is an image of the sumex archive
>at listserv@rice.bitnet.  It is not a "complete" archive and it
>is usually a few weeks behind sumex but it seems to be a good collection. What
>I mean by "complete" is that older software (ie. > year or two) and some
>indexes are not maintained.


As far as I know, the archive at Rice is updated automatically every
night. This is different than MACSERVE@PUCC, which was updated by hand last
time I checked.

Also, I am quite sure that it maintains a copy of every file at sumex.
However, old and unpopular files at sumex are deleted in order to make room
for new submissions. Perhaps this is what you were thinking of.

Bill Lipa
Info-Mac