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Re: Fair use of lugnet.cad.dat
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:53:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> Hey folks,
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> What is the limit to usage of lugnet.cad.dat? Is it considered unfair to post
> thirty models, or fifty, or a hundred?
Put up thirty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, even ten thousand if they're all
worth looking at.
> Or is that exactly what it's intended for?
Yup!
> Here's what I'm thinking: I currently have 88 of my own models in LDraw, with
> an average size of 7 kb per model. Roughly half of them are still waiting to
> be seen by the outside world. My current method of putting them up on a Web
> page involves putting them into zip or text files, because certain free Web
> providers (who shall remain unnamed (1) ) don't allow files ending in .DAT.
> Pointing to, say, http://www.lugnet.com/news/ldraw.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat:66 would
> certainly be more convenient on my part than actually paying for Web space.
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> My main concern is for Todd's disk space, but there's the chance that putting
> all of my models into cad.dat would also be pretty rude.
88 models * 7 KB per model is two one-hundredths of one percent of the free
disk space on the server. :)
I'll buy more hard drives if you need more space.
> Are there any other issues for consideration?
Yes... Keep point #7 of the LUGNET Terms of Use
http://www.lugnet.com/terms/
in mind... Because who knows, there may someday be a CD-ROM released of all
the newsgroup archives, or GIF renderings of all the models posted to the .dat
group.
--Todd
> How does everyone feel about
> this issue?
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> 1. Because Geocities might not like the bad publicity. :-P
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| (...) Well, it's that "worth looking at" specification that's really arbitrary. :-, Especially with a couple of my models I'm pretty embarassed about... (...) Now that's tempting! You see, my HD at home is a little lacking in space now that I've (...) (28 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Fair use of lugnet.cad.dat
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| Hey folks, What is the limit to usage of lugnet.cad.dat? Is it considered unfair to post thirty models, or fifty, or a hundred? Or is that exactly what it's intended for? Here's what I'm thinking: I currently have 88 of my own models in LDraw, with (...) (28 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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