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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Chris Brien said:
> On Tuesday 10 June 2003 4:06 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Can we get the 0.5.1 ISO back up on http://download.sourcemage.org?  I
>> have a few friends that I'd like to start setting up on SMGL, but the
>> ISO
>> is no longer there.  I could host it for them, but my bandwidth isn't
>> that
>> great.
>
> Which leads to the question - why in the name of the great prophet Zarquon
> are
> old releases deleted from the server? We complain till we're blue in the
> face
> whenever someone else does it, so what means we should? Especially since
> this
> is a beta release; why has the last stable disappeared? This means the
> *only*
> way to install is with a disc that may or may not have enough bugs to
> destroy
> your system - that's what beta means.
>
> It's madness, I tells you!
>
> The old releases must not be deleted. They should be reuploaded and
> archived
> there.
>
> Chris

Well, they haven't been so much as deleted as the harddisks where they
were crashed, with no backups, and no one with access has re-uploaded the
files<hint><hint><and a little nudge>

-sandalle

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