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 <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > On 8/20/15 5:49 AM, Kevin Anderson wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- Bill vintagecomputer.net