how rsync works
Donovan Baarda
abo at minkirri.apana.org.au
Thu Nov 27 09:52:53 EST 2003
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 06:04, jw schultz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:14:56AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote:
[...]
> I had thought so too but now i'm less sure.
>
> I put it up on October 26th -- for discussion.
> In the next 14 days there were hits from 107 unique IPs, 73
> of which were in the first 4 days. Then it settled down to a
> slow, declining, trickle that could have been naught but
> robots. But no one said anything online or off. So on the
> 8th of November i took it down. Now over two weeks after i
> took it down and four since putting it up you are the first
> person to even acknowledge it.
I had a look at it and thought it was good...
> The intent was to, if there is interest, get feedback to
> polish the document for placement on the web site. Or to
> let someone who is perhaps a better writer take it over.
> Not to self-publish the thing. Perhaps i had to high of
> expectations but i expected at least one or two would say
> something, even if it was just "yuck" or "its a start"
> before knowledge of it subsided into archives.
I didn't comment at the time because none of the above applied to me,
and I was slack :-(
> I'll put it back up if i hear more than just a whimper.
At the time I read it I thought; good, something I can point people at
when they ask me. I think it was a good resource.
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Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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