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- From: USENET News System <news@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:36:27 EST
- From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
- Subject: mac.archive *SURVEY*
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:36:22 GMT
-
- Below is a little survey for mac.archive.umich.edu that we send out every so
- often (whenever the mood strikes, actually). Please look at it and answer the
- questions as tersely or verbosely as you feel is necessary and mail your
- answers to *MYSELF ONLY* (not the rest of the group, please) at
- justin@mik.uky.edu
- (This file is also available as /mac/00help/survey.txt)
-
- 1. Do you enjoy your visits to mac.archive?
-
- 2. What kinds of files interest you the most?
- (such as games, utilities, extensions, communications, etc.)
-
- 3. How do you access our archives?
- a. Through a Mac-based FTP client (if so, please specify)
- b. Through basic command-line FTP
- c. Through AFS
- d. Through the BART mailserver
-
- 4. How frequently do you access mac.archive?
- a. Once a month
- b. Once a week
- c. Once a day
- d. What time is it now?
-
- 5. What other archives do you visit to find Macintosh stuff?
-
- 6. How can our directory structure be improved?
- (move /mac/system.extensions/font to /mac/fonts, for instance)
-
- 7. What is your opinion of our 'help desk?' (/mac/00help)
-
- 8. There have been a number of improvements, many of which have boosted
- performance considerably. Did you notice?
-
- 9. Do you use the BART mailserver? If so, how often? Do you have any
- suggestions on how to improve it (I know I do...)?
-
- 10. Do you subscribe to our Frequent FTP'ers mailing list?
- (mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu)
-
- 11. Do you ever run into any problems with the files you get from our
- archives? (corrupted files, infected files, etc.)
-
- 12. Anything you'd like to mention?
-
-
-
- ****************************************************************************
- Goings on at the University of Michigan Macintosh Software Repository
-
- Greetings.. We have been making many changes (and plan to make many more)
- to the archives. The following may help you to help us serve you better.
- Please read it in its entirety before commenting.
-
-
- NEWS
- ****
-
- For U of M folks: We no longer support the PC2 archives on MTS. They are
- still available of course, but they are several months old, and most of them
- are out of date. Everything on the PC2 side will probably be deleted soon.
- The reasons for this are fairly simple.. We have a mac.bin section that you
- can mount on the desktop as an AppleShare volume! (see /mac/00help for
- details)
-
- ****
- mac.archive.umich.edu now runs off two machines:
- shavenyak.css.itd.umich.edu [141.211.182.23] and
- carpediem.ccs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.165.41]
-
- This is just to balance the load and deliver maximum throughput. They
- both answer to mac.archive.umich.edu. You should not have noticed this
- change in addresses (that is, it should work now as it always has in the past),
- but if you must use an IP address, either of the above should work just fine
- In addition to using two machines, each of these now runs the wuarchive FTP
- server. Hopefully, things are much speedier for you.
-
- ****
- For those that cannot access our archives through AFS or FTP, we offer an
- ftp-by-mail service through our BART mailserver. This software (written
- locally) is very easy to use... Just send a message to
- mac@mac.archive.umich.edu with the word 'help' in the message body
- (subjects are ignored).
- BART has some 'unique' features. BART automatically splits all outgoing
- files into 28K pieces. This is to ensure that the mail will get through to
- you, as some systems (such as America Online) have limits as to the size of
- messages they can receive. BART will not let you tell it how big you want the
- pieces. BART does let you tell it which parts to send in case you miss any,
- though.
- If a request is failing but you don't think it should, don't hesitate to
- contact us (after you make sure you have the correct path and filename).
- The most common reason for jobs to fail is that people are using old
- 00help/index.txt files. This file is updated almost daily, and there
- are 00index.txt files generated (nightly) for each directory, in case
- you don't want to have to order the 30-some piece /mac/00help/index.txt
- file every day.. :)
-
- ****
- There is considerable debate within the group about the directory
- structure. In any case, it's important (for the benefit of all users) that
- the top-level /mac directory be kept compact enough to fit on the typical
- 22-line screen so it doesn't all go scrolling by for command-line FTP users.
- Any suggestions on changing the directory structure are welcome.
-
- ****
- We have a policy of NOT accepting images, sounds or QuickTime movies.
- There is a matter of the utility of our disk pool and the issue of liability.
- Yes, Sumex archives these things without any trouble, but if the hammer
- falls, it won't be on us.
-
- ****
- A Word about submissions: You may either anonymously FTP your
- graciously-accepted binhexed submissions into /mac/incoming, or mail it to
- macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu, which will 'echo' it out to sumex-aim and
- other Macintosh FTP sites. We prefer Compact Pro 1.33 or StuffIt Lite/Deluxe
- archives. The old StuffIt 1.5.1-compatible archives are still accepted, but
- it really is in everyone's best interest to upgrade their copy of StuffIt (or
- Compact Pro, if you're using anything earlier than 1.33).
-
- ****
- Guess that about covers it for now.. :)
- Again, please mail any questions or comments about the things mentioned in
- this post to *ME* DIRECTLY at justin@mik.uky.edu.
-
- If you are having problems, you can mail me or the group at
- comments@mac.archive.umich.edu. For new users, you can ask to be placed on
- our 'Frequent FTPers List' by sending a message to
- mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu.
- Please mail to me OR the group, not both (to avoid duplicated mail).
-
- Thank you for your support!
-
- (I highly recommend StarRunner in /mac/game/space if you want something
- to entertain you)
-
-
-