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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:53:42 -0700, Alessandro Selli <dhatarattha@route-add.net> wrote:

> John Goerzen wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:38:47PM -0500, Benn Newman wrote: >>> What is the status of the archive of Gopherspace John was creating? >> >> I have it, but it's about 40G and I have nowhere to host it. > > WOAH! That much? > >> It is a flat directory structure, basically host/port/selector >> >> I would be happy to tar.bz2 and burn it to DVD-Rs or something and >> snail mail it to anybody that wants it. In fact, I hope somebody >> *does* want it. It would be bad if only one person had a copy of >> this. > > Did anyone try 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/)? I read it compresses > files > better than Bzip2: > > http://www.freedb.org/ > Posted by joerg on Saturday, April 08 @ 20:56:00 UTC (462 reads) > [...] > As previously announced, we dropped the rar archives > and offer 7-zip-archives instead now. We have not > dropped the .tar.bz2 for the freedb-complete archives, > yet, but we plan to drop them next month, since they're > so much bigger compared with .tar.7z. If you really > need the .tar.bz2 archives instead of .tar.7z, please > let us know why.

Bring out your RAR, put them in a pile, and set them on fire. WOOOOOOOOOOoo.

-- Jeff