[Coco] "I had a Dream".

[Tormod Volden]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz  wrote:
> On Sun, December 20, 2015 10:20 pm, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> The task is to organize the MM CoCo files.
>
> That would be ideal only because there is new material constantly being added.

> You are right, I have an automatic backup of everything. My server hosts about

> As I mentioned the other day, downloads have slowed. I have a monthly cap,
> about 50% of which is used each month. So yes, four full downloads will indeed
> hit it.

> I was hoping that someone could organize it directly, as I certainly doubt the
> archive.org file has everything. I move new files from 'incoming' to 'newly
> received' regularly, and remove content from existing directories on request
> from copyright owners.

In light of this, I would say forget about the outdated archive.org
copy. But stick to Al's torrent idea. To distribute this while not
exceeding MM's bandwidth limitations, torrents is a great way.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Al Hartman wrote:
> It's going to be later tonight until the torrent is ready. I'm moving the
> file to my desktop, then I have to create the .torrent file.
>

I would just like to ask that any torrent is made out of the server
contents as-is, and not some single 72 GB zip/rar file.

Some people (many people, who don't understand torrents, mumble
mumble) zip the content files into one huge zip or rar file that they
share in the torrent. Maybe because they think it will save some
bandwidth or a few percent disk space. Typically there is not much
saving because the content is already compressed. The result is that
downloaders must get 100.0% of the file before they can unzip and look
at the contents.

If on the other hand the torrent contains the original files and file
tree structure, people can see what is inside, and select the parts
they want to have downloaded first (and start using them while the
rest is being downloaded).

And maybe more important, if the distribution gets updated (tidied up
even) and a new "MM" torrent is made, downloading the new torrent over
the old copy will be much faster, compared to having a new zip/rar
file that must be downloaded in its entirety.

Regards,
Tormod