Re: [LUG] Archive and irc

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:
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> On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 9:33 pm, Paul Sutton wrote:
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> > 1.What is the possibility of having the archive of messages on a cdrom to
> > give to members perhaps at meetings, etc, it may be useful incase we have a
> > meet with no internet access, anyone with access to a computer can then
> > access the archive etc
>
>
> Fine, but you might want to have a little more than just the archives on a CD. 
> The entire DCLUG site is currently 62Mb. (10% of a CD). The rest of the site 
> is not particularly large so upto 60Mb so far as archives going back to 1999.
>
> The current archive is about 10Mb (just counting the HTML files) so I doubt 
> that could compress onto a floppy (!) - I could possibly use other media 
> (like CompactFlash) but that gets too expensive to give away!!!
>
> Anything else you'd want on a CD-R?
> Any other media to consider? Does anyone have those credit-card / 
> business-card CD-R's? How much can they hold? Are they easy to write? Price?
>
>
> > any thoughts on this one (IRC)
> > It could be useful for when arranging meetings etc.
> >
> > paul
>
>
> Depends how many people actually use IRC - I've never liked IRC and don't ever 
> use it but a list can be added if people want it.
>
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I would like that, (irc)

credit card CD-R's usually hold about 200mb iirc, big ehough for most 
things... available from cassies shop in plymouth last time i was there, 
or i can look in to suppliers if interested ?


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