[gopher] Gopher Archive Torrent Now Available (incl. hal3000.cx)

[John Goerzen]

It's live!  Download your .torrent here:

http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/Full%20Gopher%20Archive%20from%202007.torrent

Or, for a short URL:

http://bit.ly/cyY0Sv

Please start downloading ASAP; I won't be able to seed forever.

I don't know how to get these things indexed on the search engines, so 
if any of you would like to add it to them, that would be great.

I am presently seeding off my home DSL, which is capped at about 
20-40KB/s upstream, alas.  Tomorrow I will bring some better bandwidth 
to bear on it as well.

This torrent includes the tar.bz2 file that was on the 4-DVD set.  Also 
on that set was a rare video interview with two Gopher founders, Mark 
McCahill and Farhad Anklesaria.  That video is also included in the 
torrent.  Finally, the source code to the gopher spidering bot I used, a 
dump of the PostgreSQL table behind the spider, and a dump of the file 
list of the tar file is included.  All told, this is a 15GB download, 
and all but about 500M of that is the main tar.bz2.

The tar.bz2 itself contains 780238 files or directories and unpacks to 
roughly 40GB of data.  It was made in June 2007.  If you just want to 
see what's in the archive, you can start by downloading only 
tar-filelist.bz2 from inside this torrent.  README.TXT also contains an 
index to the contents.

Of note to recent discussions:

1503 files/directories exist from hal3000.cx

Finally, it should be noted that this thing saved directories in 
.gophermap format, and as such this archive should be able to be served 
directly by both Pygopherd and Bucktooth.

-- John