Subj : Re: The next files for AA25A games.
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Mon Mar 24 2014 12:50 pm

Hi Ben,

>> 25AmapsW.zip got to be 56M. The next file for addon is textures.7z and
>> it will be 25AttrsW.zip = 210M so info file in zip without using L/M/W
>> and info as extension with OS letter. Then will I make a OS letter for
>> each OS of the file. Then is there just 2 big files again there is at
>> 313M and 516M. Alle those big files will I for Linux , MAC + Windows

> Is all of this really prudent for FIDONet? Seems like way too much for
>something that is accessible over broadband where it belongs ... even the part
> you're hatching out is overly large IMHO my bandwidth won't suffer but others
>may, I'm just saying. I stopped hatching A/V files due to ridiculous large siz
> as these ... Janis may have an opinion here (g)

YES, I do.

I really feel that games especially should be limited to say 30-31Meg, and 
that's pushing it in my mind.

I don't know any linux sysops who do not have full internet access so for them, 
if they want huge files, they should get them online, not through fidonet.

As I've mentioned before, I've decided recently that I won't hatch out any file 
in any of the FDNs over here (PDN, UtilNet, RAR, WIN_FDN, etc.) that are larger 
than 30M. I get email requests in every day from authors of games to send out 
their files in WIN_GAME for game files that are half-a-gig, sometime bigger
:(, and I just delete them.

Gert is now sending .inf files to let people know where they can download huge 
files on his system, and that works much better than sending the traffic 
through fidonet's file distribution IMO. I won't even take the time to do that
<grin>

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)