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From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: New version of my ftpd is now available
In-Reply-To: cmf851@anu.oz.au's message of 16 Jun 91 09:26:11 GMT
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In article <1991Jun16.092611.15695@newshost.anu.edu.au> cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) writes:

   I have been working on some software (originally by Tony Moraes,
   supplied by Ed Vielmetti) which relies on using ls -alR to obtain a

That would be Mark Moraes, please make sure you give him proper credit!

Other than that small detail, your changes sound like they're working
in the right direction.  Just to be sure that there's not a zillion
versions of Mark's so far otherwise unreleased code floating around,
it might be best not to post these scripts all that widely to the net.

   Further substantial reductions in traffic could be achieved by
   providing larger capacity cache and mirror sites and locating them
   more at national and regional gateways that have expensive links to
   the rest of the internet.

Well, that's a nice thought, but I don't believe that you're going to
get any substantial amount of funding for that purpose any time soon,
at least not from public sources.  They seem to be more interested in
subsidizing bandwidth, not building applications which would add value
to the network and help people use it.  On this side of the Pacific
we're starting to hear the T3! T3! T3! chants, as if simply
transporting more bits around would make the network better.  Compare
the cost of T3 lines with the meager resources being thrown at (or not
thrown at) archivist work and other projects designed to add
organization to the net, and it's rather discouraging.

-- 
Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, emv@msen.com

"(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can
collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate
unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded
researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational
and training software; "
			"High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"


