20 Aug
2015
20 Aug
'15
8:20 a.m.
Whatever the motivation of the mirror operator, if you put it on the
web it's public and control is lost.
Not to worry - If your web site organizational structure is superior,
over time people will figure it out and ignore those who are out-dated
or less complete. "Content is King"
Most of us are lucky to have worked even briefly at these old
companies. I wonder what the founders of these companies would have
thought about us in 2015.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 8/20/15 5:49 AM, Kevin Anderson wrote:
--
Bill
vintagecomputer.net
I think it is great that Bitsavers material can
be saved in more than one
location, whether that be identical mirrors on multiple servers or with
material copied into another environment.
I completely disagree. Scott asked to 'mirror bitsavers'
That is NOT what he did, and he is the ONLY person who has ever done this
after asking for rsync access.
Bitsavers looks the way it does for ONE reason, to make it trivial to mirror
the hierarchy EXACTLY as it looks and
to distribute the workload worldwide. Jay and I greatly appreciate the
bandwidth that all of the mirrors provide.
It is a dynamic document. Files get updated, some directories are split if
they get too big. I have
had one instance when I was asked to take down the contents of a directory,
which I did. There are
some quirks in the taxonomy, but they are that way to minimize the bandwidth
impact of a wholesale
reorganization on the rsync peers.
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.
There is no discussion about 'fixing' what he has done. The damage is
already done.
I have been torn about talking about this because it is a no-win situation.
Pulling his access is pointless,
you can just wget it.
THAT is why I said he doesn't 'get it', and
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3881 demonstrated that.