Re: CoCo torrent?
Rob Rosenbrock via Coco <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:45:45 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco |
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--===============6263640584989748357== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-04944987-785C-4EA0-AC6D-C5576F7F14D8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Apple-Mail-04944987-785C-4EA0-AC6D-C5576F7F14D8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html class=3D"apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equi= v=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body dir=3D= "auto">I would recommend breaking files up into groups. Documents broken dow= n to magazines, tech references, manuals=E2=80=A6 programs down to utilities= , games, etc. no point in grabbing all of those magazines or games if you=E2= =80=99re not interested in them atm <div><br id=3D"lineBreakAtBeginning= OfSignature"><div dir=3D"ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br>= <blockquote type=3D"cite">On Jun 2, 2026, at 12:18=E2=80=AFPM, Allen Huffman= via Coco <[email protected]> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div= ><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div dir=3D"ltr">=EF=BB=BF<meta http-equiv=3D"con= tent-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><div><blockquote type=3D"c= ite"><div>On Jun 2, 2026, at 11:13=E2=80=AFAM, RETRO Innovations via Coco &l= t;[email protected]> wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-n= ewline"><div><meta charset=3D"UTF-8"><p style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); f= ont-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-cap= s: 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-line:= none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Setti= ng up the server is easy (<a href=3D"https://forgejo.org/">Forgejo =E2=80=93= Beyond coding. We forge.</a>, for example) but we should first get a list o= f the sites we want to do this with, and see how the maintainers feel about i= t. For example:</p><ul 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; te= xt-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-s= pacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; tex= t-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li>If a site m= aintainer does NOT want their site mirrored, how do we respond?</li><li>If t= hey do, it would be best if they push their changes into the repo directly, a= s an admin, and then their site just pulls from the repo like everything els= e.</li><li>Or, maybe they want to host their repo, for control reasons, and w= e can all point to it.</li></ul></div></blockquote></div>One concern I have i= s when someone grabs =E2=80=9Ceverything=E2=80=9D from the coco archive. Tha= t=E2=80=99s huge drain on that server=E2=80=99s bandwidth. I=E2=80=99v= e been posting websites since the late 90s, so I=E2=80=99ve never had any co= ncerns about bandwidth because I=E2=80=99ve always had a ton of it for all t= he sites I hosted=E2=80=A6<div><br></div><div>But if it is not an =E2=80=9Cu= nlimited=E2=80=9D bandwidth account, moving to a torrent would spread out th= e downloads. That was my original idea =E2=80=94 how to mirror without havin= g a bunch of people hit the site.</div><div><br></div><div>If we did go the w= ay of sync, that means if 100 of us wanted =E2=80=9Call the files=E2=80=9D t= hat is 100 downloads of everything from that server. Foreign bots took my si= te down (Cloudflare is now there) which made me aware of this issue for the f= irst time.</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><spa= n>-- </span><br><span>Coco mailing list</span><br><span>[email protected]= i.edu</span><br><span>http://listserv.adelphi.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/c= oco</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-04944987-785C-4EA0-AC6D-C5576F7F14D8-- --===============6263640584989748357== 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 --===============6263640584989748357==--