Posted by anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/That-s-right-it-was-ME-tp1488900p1488911.html

Anthony Appleyard wrote:-
> It we abandon FAB-UFO and Pipex, what will happen to FAB-UFO group's
> archives? Will they still be somewhere where people can read them?

Marc Martin <[hidden email]> answered:-
> Perhaps I could put them on my website. Based on my private
> archiving of the discussions, it looks like there's about 30 MB of
> text. Although I would likely *not* store them as two-day digests,
> as 1200 files is a bit overwhelming! Instead, I'd probably put them
> in 6-month archives, which would make each file around 1-3 MB.

If they were left as small files but all zipped together as one or a few
zipfiles, that would make them a lot smaller. Then each user could download
the lot once and for all and then could root through them at leisure on his
own computer with Winzip. An archive file a megabyte or more long would take a
LOT of time and phone bill to download at dialup line speed every time a user
wanted to look for something.