[gopher] 3GB more data for torrent

[John Goerzen]

Hi folks,

Back between about 2002 and 2006, the Gopher server on quux.org served 
3GB of mirrors of other sites.  Changing hosting arrangements cramped my 
disk space and resource availability, so these mirrors were removed 
before my archival spider ran.

I'll include the README.txt from this below, but wanted to highlight a 
couple of items of particular interest.  This includes the FTP site from 
boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher, which was a large collection of Gopher 
client and server software.  Also included was 
ftp.unicom.com/pub/gn-tools, the old GN server, and wiretap.area.com. 
This last site was mirrorable via FTP, and included the UMN Gopherd .cap 
and .Links files, so it can be served up via PyGopherd.

There are also some other bits of general interest, some of which were 
available via Gopher and some via FTP only: etext.org, the OBI from 
ftp.std.com, and a textfiles.com mirror.

Torrent is at:

http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/Quux.Org%20Gopher%20Mirror%20Collection%202006.torrent

Full content of README.txt:

This is a collection of mirrors maintained by gopher.quux.org.  These
mirrors were taken offline in 2006 due to bandwidth constraints.

This collection prepared April 2010 by John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>

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mirrors.tar.bz2
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Compressed size: 1.6GB
Uncompressed size: 3.8GB
File count: 102736

The content includes:

   boombox.micro.umn.edu
     /pub/gopher from the FTP site, including various historic Gopher
     software packages for many operating systems

     [ site no longer exists ]

   etext.org
     /pub from the etext.org FTP site, an early electronic book/magazine
     collection.

     [ site no longer exists but is in archive.org as a web site ]

   fidonews collection, 1984-2002
     Collection of FidoNet newsletters

   ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/oracle
     The Usernet/Internet Oracle archive, snapshot taken in 2002

     [ site still up; mirror taken in 2002 ]

   ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim
     PDP-1, -7, -8, and -11 simulators collection

     [ site no longer exists ]

   ftp.eff.org/Misc/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector
     EFF newsletter collection

   ftp.std.com/pub/mbg
     Files relating to PDP-10 and PDP-11

     [ site is down ]

   ftp.ucpel.tche.br/pub/msdos/emulator/coco
     TRS-80 CoCo II emulator and collection of CoCo II software

     [ site no longer exists ]

   ftp.unicom.com/pub/gn-tools
     The old GN gopher server.  Last updated 1995.

     [ site no longer exists ]

   gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet
     Files pertaining to the Usenet newsgroups
     comp.sources.games, comp.sources.misc, comp.sources.reviewed,
     comp.sources.sun, comp.sources.unix

     [ site is up but this data is gone ]

   if-archive: ftp.irarchive.org
     Interactive Fiction archive snapshot

     [ site is up ]
   OBI: the Online Books Initiative
     Another early etext site.  From ftp.std.com.

     [ site is up, but as a Web site only now ]

   risks: the risk of technology digest

   textfiles.com
     Mirror of that site.  Site is still up.

   wiretap.area.com
     An old Gopher site.  The Gopher metadata is included in the mirror.

     Various etexts, especially related to government.

     A Web site now exists at that location, but Gopher is down.

   wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/c/unix-c
     Some old Unix-based utilities and programs.

     [ site is down ]

   www.espy.org
     Joel Klecker's website.  Joel Klecker was a Debian developer that
     died in 2000 at the age of 21.

     [ site is down ]

   x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos
     Includes DOS programs for various outdates compression formats

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usenet-a-news.tar.bz2
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Compressed size: 4MB
Uncompressed size: 51MB
File count: 9987

Usenet articles from around 1981, before the Great Renaming.

Not sure where I got this archive from.