> I want to describe to my users a means of obtaining FAQs by name.
> But I don't _really_ want to point them to rtfm.mit.edu , now do I?
> Is it not still melting down from the number of accesses? Is there a
> machine sturdy enough to which I can point folk?
It's probably noting that it should be easier to access rtfm.mit.edu
now than one might remember. In the last several months several fixes
have been installed to "reap" FTP connections which ought to die but
didn't, for one reason or another, which were unnecessarily filling up
the anonymous FTP limit. The maintainers of the machine (which isn't
quite the same group of people as the *.answers moderators) have also
leaned on some commercial Internet providers (who shall remain
nameless) to set up local mirrors for their own users.
The canonical listing for sites which mirror the Usenet periodic
informational postings archives on rtfm.mit.edu or just the *.answers
subset of them can be found in the "Introduction to *.answers"
posting, available as /pub/usenet/news.answers/news-answers/introduction.
Sites supporting FTP, gopher, WWW, and other protocols are all listed
there. If you know of additional sites with publically accessible
mirrors of some kind which would not mind being listed, please let us
know at news-answers-request@MIT.EDU.
Lastly, perhaps as early as late this summer, the organization which
donates the use of the hardware that answer to rtfm.mit.edu (MIT's
Student Information Processing Board) will be upgrading it. Currently
it is a DECstation 5000/25 (beefed up with memory, but the model is
still a relatively wimpy user workstation, not a server). The
replacement will be a Sun SPARCstation 20. Although not as studly as
a SPARCserver 1000 :), it should still be enough of an improvement
that the limit on anonymous FTP connections will probably be raised.
--- Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service, Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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