OK, we're the first to jump on the throats of anyone closing down a site, so here's our chance to rescue one. Maybe someone can refer this person to the right place or do the legwork in hooking up a connection. (wuarchive comes to mind) On the other hand, if it is poorly organized or replicated elsewhere or whatever, maybe it should just die with a whimper. (I would be very interested in finding out why the archive is being shut down.) ------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 02:44:12 -0500 From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Subject: WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL is passing away The massive archive site WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA, which is home to more than 2 gigabytes of files for many computer systems, including MSDOS, Unix, VMS and some mainframes, will be shut down by its operators as of September 20, 1993. Unless a new home is found for the archives, this major archive site will vanish. This is a major archive and if it is possible to save it, then it should not be allowed to just disappear. If anyone knows of a site that can house the master archives, please send a message to Keith Petersen <w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil> Mr. Petersen is trying to find a new home for the master archives. Note that many of the older files are on CD-ROM, so it is not absolutely necessary that a site dedicate two GB of disk space, as perhaps 3/4 of this is on CDs, so the option would be to loan perhaps 4 CD slots in an optical jukebox, along with perhaps 500 meg of disk space. Please pass this message to any list that might find it of interest. Thank you. - --- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM ------- End of Forwarded Message