Re: CoCo torrent?
Allen Huffman via Coco <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2026 11:01:37 -0500
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--===============4188427431777108881== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_DD4F3A82-127C-4607-A7DD-E682EF9BAD4F" --Apple-Mail=_DD4F3A82-127C-4607-A7DD-E682EF9BAD4F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jun 2, 2026, at 10:59=E2=80=AFAM, RETRO Innovations via Coco = <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > I second this. Torrents are great for unchanging material, but the = web site (I assume) will get updated all the time. Placing a copy on = GitHub/GitLab/etc. and letting people pull via cron ensures not only = that things are always up to date, but git will provide a list of what = has changed since last pull. By having the cron/at job save its output = to a timestamped file, you can have a complete record of what changed = from last time you looked at the files and now. We could get someone to set up a Git server, since what we would be = hosting (things like book scans, Rainbow magazine, software) would = likely be a violation of terms for a commercial service due to = copyright. Though anything that has been officially released to the public domain = (like stuff on L. Curtis Boyle=E2=80=99s game site) would be fair game, = I suspect. =E2=80=94 A --Apple-Mail=_DD4F3A82-127C-4607-A7DD-E682EF9BAD4F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html aria-label=3D"message body"><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" = content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body = style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>On = Jun 2, 2026, at 10:59=E2=80=AFAM, RETRO Innovations via Coco = <[email protected]> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset=3D"UTF-8"><span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; = letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; = display: inline !important;">I second this. Torrents are great for = unchanging material, but the web site (I assume) will get updated all = the time. Placing a copy on GitHub/GitLab/etc. and letting people = pull via cron ensures not only that things are always up to date, but = git will provide a list of what has changed since last pull. By = having the cron/at job save its output to a timestamped file, you can = have a complete record of what changed from last time you looked at the = files and now.</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>We could get = someone to set up a Git server, since what we would be hosting (things = like book scans, Rainbow magazine, software) would likely be a violation = of terms for a commercial service due to = copyright.</div><div><br></div><div>Though anything that has been = officially released to the public domain (like stuff on L. Curtis = Boyle=E2=80=99s game site) would be fair game, I = suspect.</div><div><br></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span>=E2=80=94 = A</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_DD4F3A82-127C-4607-A7DD-E682EF9BAD4F-- --===============4188427431777108881== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- Coco mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.adelphi.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coco --===============4188427431777108881==--