archives

[Ron Nossaman]

>I've also been toying with the idea of throwing all the archives on
>a CD-ROM and telling people I will ship them a copy if they reimburse
>me for the cost.  That would allow you to just throw the CD-ROM in
>your drive and use your local machine's "Find..." command to seach it.
>There would be no more content than is available publically on the web,
>it would just be much faster to access.  What do folks think of that idea?
>
>-andy


I want one. Will the whole thing fit on a CD without compression? That's a
lot of bytes, and compression would unnecessarily complicate it's use, or
make it impossible altogether. What's the price? I would also like to see
the archives split into monthly (weekly?) files for more efficient
downloading for those who don't care for the CD and can't spend three days
of connect time downloading the whole mess that they probably don't have
storage space for in the first place. Seems like an excellent compromise.

 Ron