Homebrew PCBs

hi steve

i have a copy of pg offline here.
i downloaded it becasue of the zipped "cnc board" file which can be found 
there.
but this file is too big for my modem (56k it would take 3-4h) so i told a 
friend to download and cd it.

it may be an option that every member has his own database of this group 
but i don't think this
is the best idea. the files should be available at a server.
i guess there are some people here running their own server or having 
access to one.

i find it terrible too that the space is limited and yahoo deletes older 
things...


i had three hd failtures in a short timespan (psu was faulty and seems to 
have killed it)
and i don't trust my own dish too much ;-), everything important i have on 
cd.


The VERY, VERY best would be to get all messages, from the archive, on 
another server (not yahoo)
where the space is not limited (lets say 1gb or so) where old messages do 
not have to be deleted.
the messages should be accessible via a online system.
this would provide a "mirror" of all messages but the older ones wouldn't 
be deleted.
sure you would ned some kind of user interface on this backup server but i 
think this is not a bad idea.

and now the positive effect of this system:
a new member should be able to copy the server files (maybe zipped weekly 
or at backup times)
AND the user interface (html or other common browser-interpretable code) to 
his harddisk.
so he can easily read through interesting things....

i too read a big number of the old posts when i joined.... it was not too 
funny....
but no i don't see any reason to download the messages and store locally - 
this does my mail software for me
and i can remember the "important" content....


regards
stefan