Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from hal3000.cx ([69.217.43.23] ident=root) by glockenspiel.complete.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) id 1I2YR4-00024W-2a for gopher@complete.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:51 -0500 Received: from work1.hal3000.cx (work1.hal3000.cx [10.0.0.2]) by hal3000.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA24343 for <gopher@complete.org>; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:05:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris@hal3000.cx) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:02:04 -0500 From: Chris <chris@hal3000.cx> To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopher bot archive now available Message-Id: <20070624150204.242f61b1@work1.hal3000.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070624011041.GA22355@katherina.lan.complete.org> References: <20070624011041.GA22355@katherina.lan.complete.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No (score 0.1): AWL=0.082 X-Virus-Scanned: by Exiscan on glockenspiel.complete.org at Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:51 -0500 X-archive-position: 1627 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: chris@hal3000.cx Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

I'd also be willing to pay for option #2

Chris

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:10:41 -0500 John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:

> Hi, > > Awhile back, I offered to send off the gopher bot archive to anyone > interested. > > Well, I have finally had the time to assemble the data. > > What I have is four DVDs worth of data. > > The data has been tar'd, bzip2'd, and split'd. Each image contains two > files, 1.9GB each. These simply represent the underlying raw bits of > the tar ball. The very list disc is smaller, but I added onto it the > source to my bot, the video interview with the UMN folks, and a pg_dump > of my database tables for the bot. > > The archive untars to approximately 30GB worth of data. > > Unix users can copy the split'd files to their hard disk, then just cat > *.0* | tar -jxvf - > > You'll of course need quite a bit of free disk space to do that. > > Windows users may have a tough time processing this. copy /b may be > able to concatenate the files, but then you'll have to untar and unbzip2 > it all. Plus, some of these directories contain colons, and may have > more files per directory than Windows can handle well. > > I am willing to: > > 1) Burn DVDs and send them free of charge to one person in the community > that will promise to burn and distribute them to everyone else that > wants copies; > > or > > 2) Burn DVDs and mail them for some fee -- probably $15 or $20 per > set -- to any address in the US for everyone that wants them. The fee > would cover cost of the media, thin jewel cases, packing materials, > postage, and anything left over could I guess be considered to go > towards my time assembling it all. > > Thoughts? > > -- John > > >

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