Re: Bad ShrinkIt archives on Asimov

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
> > Dave Touvell found some damaged ShrinkIt archives on Asimov a couple of
> > days ago.  We did a little digging, and there are indications that most
> > of them were created by a single person or single program.
>
> Here's the list of damaged archives from Ground.
>
> I checked a few of these.  The 1WSW archives appear to be from the
> "bad mac".  The stuff in Ground/Collections/AOL doesn't, but it does show
> various flavors of brain damage.  The files in Ground/Mirrors/caltech
> are filled with nothing but zeroes.
>
> All this comes from a mirror on www.apple2.org.za.  Other Ground mirrors
> may or may not have similar issues.

I always used caution when venturing over that direction due to their
close ties to Tom Turkey, errrrr, Turley.  (couldn't resist the
appropriate Thanksgiving pun)  I'm not saying this particular batch of
corrupted files/dain brammage is directly related to him, but I
question the quality standards due to association.  ie. there were a
lot of sector edits and other bogus material that came from that crowd.

- Paul