Re: CD-ROM project, amount of data until now

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)]

In article <m0oGWrv-000NjsC@zoodle.robin.de> Uli writes:
>
>I checked ftp.uu.net:/usenet/rec.music.gaffa, found the newer archives
>(thanks, Bill!), got a complete file list and checked what I am missing
>and how much I already have. Looks good!
>
>Stuff in my love-hounds archive: 
>
>97,938 KBytes, completely uncompressed
>
>Stuff on ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa that's not in my archive:
>9,319 KBytes, half of it compressed, half not (pics, sounds)
>
>It looks like we have about 110 to 115 MBytes of uncompressed stuff
>ready to go. About 47 MBytes is the newsgroup archives, the rest is
>distributed as about half of it pictures, half of it text.

    I'm done with my giant project and I can volunteer my hard disk
and tape to compile everything. I can make 350 megs free without too
much trouble. The best use of net resources would be to pay a visit to
Dave Datta in Kenosha and download everything via his T-1 line.



                          Chris Williams of
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