For years I have quietly been making off-site copies of the UT sites I visited and grabbing the downloads that were publicly viewable. All-in-all it's a rather extensive selection of UT 'stuff' that includes a lot of material I bet you considered lost or never publicly shared.
I've been mulling over some sort of way of sharing this out to the general UT admins so that it can be kept in some fashion. Right now it sits on a single HD and that's a shame because I know there are a lot of old timers that would dearly love to see some of this again. Overall I'm guessing (roughly) that it would be somewhere in the 25-35GB range in size once it was packaged and sorted correctly.
Now my questions to you:
1) I accept there are most likely unfinished projects in it, things that although were placed on a publicly viewable site were never meant to be shared openly, and old versions of stuff. I have no way of knowing what is what so are there objections to posting things pulled from public sites? Sorting the wheat from the chaff is nearly impossible, there are literally thousands and thousands of files in this.
2) How can I share something like this? I thought about using high-capacity thumb drives and mailing it to people that wanted it, then they could mail me back the cost of the drive if they were happy with it.
3) Is this something you guys are even interested in?
I just need to make some sort of decision with this material. The drive itself is several years old, the data has been moved a few times already, and frankly I need the room. It would be cathartic to clean it all up and either mothball the whole thing or share it with you. Thoughts?
I've been mulling over some sort of way of sharing this out to the general UT admins so that it can be kept in some fashion. Right now it sits on a single HD and that's a shame because I know there are a lot of old timers that would dearly love to see some of this again. Overall I'm guessing (roughly) that it would be somewhere in the 25-35GB range in size once it was packaged and sorted correctly.
Now my questions to you:
1) I accept there are most likely unfinished projects in it, things that although were placed on a publicly viewable site were never meant to be shared openly, and old versions of stuff. I have no way of knowing what is what so are there objections to posting things pulled from public sites? Sorting the wheat from the chaff is nearly impossible, there are literally thousands and thousands of files in this.
2) How can I share something like this? I thought about using high-capacity thumb drives and mailing it to people that wanted it, then they could mail me back the cost of the drive if they were happy with it.
3) Is this something you guys are even interested in?
I just need to make some sort of decision with this material. The drive itself is several years old, the data has been moved a few times already, and frankly I need the room. It would be cathartic to clean it all up and either mothball the whole thing or share it with you. Thoughts?