Re: tarnover archive

[Michael Maginnis <michaelmaginnis@theknifeyahoo.com>]

On 07 Jul 2004 17:53:47 -0700, Eric Smith
<eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote:

>I just found a partial copy of the ftp.tarnover.dyndns.org archive that
>I downloaded a few years ago.  The download did not complete, but I did
>get over 2GB of files.  I'm not sure what fraction of the full archive
>that represented.
>
>From the discussion in this newsgroup when the archive went away (due to
>a fire), I gather that there were some files not easily found elsewhere
>online.
>
>I don't have enough bandwidth available for a lot of people to download
>this, but I'm willing to burn a DVD-R and drop it in the mail.  I'd ask
>$5 by Paypal to cover media and US postage, possibly more for non-US
>addresses.  I'm not trying to make money on this, and I don't have time
>to make a lot of these, so I'd prefer to only hear from people who are
>willing and able to make the archive available online.  If you are,
>please email me, removing the obvious spam-proofing from my address.
>
>Eric

It should be noted that Tarnover was filled with duplicate and broken
/ corrupt files.  I forget how large the archive was when I lost it,
but I'd bet after proper sorting and clean-up, you'd be looking at a
75% reduction in size.  As I recall, the last backup I had (also lost)
was 6 or 7 CD-Rs.

I should also state that 90 - 95% of the stuff was pirated material.

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Mike

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