On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > > > 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. >
The rest of this discussion deserves attention, but this particular statement is, I'm sad to say, a false characterization. I run the textfiles.com mirror, which is at http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers - I've been running that since day one of becoming a mirror, and it is an exact rsync'd mirror of bitsavers. The processing work done to put items over on the Internet Archive, which is a matter of discussion and debate, is done by probing this mirror. It is, I repeat, an exact mirroring of the bitsavers mirror, via rsync. This is even listed on the front of the bitsavers webpage! As textfiles.com, I've been mirroring bitsavers since before I joined archive.org in 2011. I'll answer the questions about the Internet Archive's presenting of bitsavers when I calm down, but I've definitely been a true mirror for about five years now.
