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It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time.
As I was collecting textfiles and other artifacts from the BBS era and beyond, I started to go after the logical next step: audio recordings and "art scene" creations. In the case of audio, it started with conferences from the 1990s and voicemail recordings, but it has quickly expanded into the current hacker radio shows and other collections that people have brought to me. In the "artscene" section, I knew it was going to be large, since I would be collecting works from ANSI Art Packs, MOD and Music writers, and a whole host of other demos, drawings and works going back for a very long time. Indeed, the collection is already in the tens of gigabytes. In both cases, the sites have gained in popularity, until the day has finally come that they are starting to hurt my bandwidth. This is bandwidth that comes out of my own pocket, with no advertising or other stupidities to augment them. I am fine with this, but people who use the sites are starting to notice the slowdown. So, I would like to ask if anyone is interested in being a mirror for these sites. They are very large, and very popular with folks, and I don't see the popularity coming down. I do not want mirrors who will add advertising to them, although the mirror link themselves will tell you who is providing it, and there can be a "information about this mirror" page that will be a "anything you want" sort of situation. If you know someone with a lot of space and a need to flex their muscles, please contact me: jason [a t] textfiles.com. Thanks.
Jason Scott
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