20 Aug
2015
20 Aug
'15
10:48 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
What he has done is ripped off the content while NEVER agreeing to be one
of the mirrors, freezing
what he took and attempting to cluelessly make it 'accessable' burying it
in something impossible for
anyone ELSE to mirror. The files DON'T get fixed when I update them.
The rest of this discussion deserves attention, but this particular
statement is, I'm sad to say, a false characterization.
I run the textfiles.com mirror, which is at
http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers - I've been running that since day one
of becoming a mirror, and it is an exact rsync'd mirror of bitsavers. The
processing work done to put items over on the Internet Archive, which is a
matter of discussion and debate, is done by probing this mirror. It is, I
repeat, an exact mirroring of the bitsavers mirror, via rsync. This is even
listed on the front of the bitsavers webpage! As textfiles.com, I've been
mirroring bitsavers since before I joined archive.org in 2011.
I'll answer the questions about the Internet Archive's presenting of
bitsavers when I calm down, but I've definitely been a true mirror for
about five years now.