[Coco] "I had a Dream".

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi, Dennis,

As with all CoCo projects we have hundreds of people wanting to do it their unique way.

Some of the massive downloader's have started on archive.org which is not a problem.

You expressed some constraints that may cause problems with the effort.

If we can get "one" leader to control the effort then that person can work with you with your conflicts.

I have looked at the files often enough to see what needs to be done and what needs to broken, the worst being links hardwired into bookmarks.

But I am not up to the task these days, I may have been a decade or so before. Hopefully a leader will step and put their stamp on the project.

Only one version must be created for archive.org or we will have a horrible mess.

Thus a controlling leader must step up.

SHF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <bathory at maltedmedia.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] "I had a Dream".


> Oh. I missed this conversation.
> 
> Thanks for the concern. Downloads are generally smaller now. Only a few big
> ones, as I think the big robots have done their site-sucking work.
> 
> What's really needed is someone to organize it. I had a person who started it
> and then stopped. Now it's hung up as half-organized with duplicates and a
> whoppin pile of new submissions.
> 
> It really needs work -- there is duplicate content but almost no actual
> duplicate material. What I mean is that there are various scans, images and
> PDFs of the same documents. I think those should all be kept because their
> various sizes and qualities are valuable in any archive.
> 
> Meanwhile, if anyone has the energy to follow this through, I'll be happy to
> give that person access to do it. But I'm interested in someone serious who is
> not going to give up. Another half-finished organization will only be worse.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> On Sun, December 20, 2015 11:43 am, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> A better plan is to do some work on the files so the other archive.org tools
>> for the bone ward can be used. It is not set up for single 72 GB files.
>>
>> 0. Perhaps ask that MM CoCo Downloads be turned off except on a password
>> basis.
>>
>> 1. Accept a leader. MOST IMPORTANT! We need a leader to tell Dennis what we
>> are doing and to insure that members do not abuse MM in doing this mirror and
>> the recessing checking.
>>
>> 2. get a safe copy so it can be split up like Bill has suggested.
>>
>> 3. Check and see if it is what we think and the snapshot date so we can track
>> additions after that date.
>>
>> 4. find out who did the download from MM and ban them from MM and the CoCo
>> list forever. That activity "May" be the reason that Dennis complained about
>> people trying to download the entire MM CoCo site.
>>
>> 5. Start a new archive.org with a better organization and add the files to it,
>> purging "The invisible man?" files as needed
>>
>> 6. Produce copies using the tool I have to allow DECB files be found and
>> duplicates removed.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Do not download files from MM CoCo or upload any files except upon direction
>> of the leader.
>>
>> That will cause us much more trouble with Dennis.
> 
> 
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