From: elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Subject: Re: College/HS Marching Band Quickie Survey
Reply-To: aelman@cs.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:26:01 GMT

lsjumb@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stanford Band) writes:
: OK, hold on a sec - this could be a big disorganized netmess.  Tim
: Castro at Berkeley seems to be making a list of bands and their
: marching style; perhaps it would be best to email (not post) responses
: to him (but let's get the go-ahead from him first, since this could be
: a time-consuming task depending on how much info goes in).  He would
: post the results later.
: 
: We might consider making a huge public directory somewhere with lists
: of all this info and how-to-join, bits o' history, etc., and make it
: available by anonymous ftp or something.  Currently we (the Stanford
: Band) have a Public directory that is accessible by anyone (I think) (by the
: way, it is /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/l/lsjumb/Public, but is still in its
: infancy and doesn't have much stuff - lots of inside joke things at
: this point).  I'm not exactly sure how anonymous ftp sites work and
: all, but I could probably figure it out (actually Adam Elman is the
: UNIX guru around here, maybe he wants a project besides attaining the
: world record number of smilies in a single post :-).  I might have
: time to develop such a thing after/during finals (after Mon 12/14,
: say).
: 
: Any thoughts/better ideas on this one (or anyone else really want this
: project)?
: 

Hey, at least I don't overuse salutations in e-mail the way I do in
real life.  (Hi Scott! :-)

But seriously -- Indeed, the LSJUMB public directory is available via
AFS to anyone at a site using AFS (lots of sites are on it now, check
with your local sysadmins! :-).  The path from a non-Stanford AFS site is:

/afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/l/lsjumb/Public

Scott's also right in that there isn't all that much there right now.
Unfortunately, there is also a 2MB quota on this system, so we're not
likely to get too much besides small text files in there in the near
future.  Getting the sysadmins to allow the account to exist in the
first place was hard enough...Oh well.

Further unfortunately, I just checked and that path is not available by
anonymous ftp to leland.  So that's out too, unless you have AFS.
There is a possibility of a gopher server being set up in the near
future which could have access to the LSJUMB (and potentially other
band) stuff, but that won't be available publicly till at least early
next quarter.  However, if Tim would send me or Scott the results of
that survey, we can put it in the lsjumb public directory in
anticipation of its being more widely available through some means.

To sum up:  Right now, LSJUMB public directory available via AFS.
	    Near future, LSJUMB public directory available via Gopher
(hopefully).
	    For various reasons, anonymous FTP access here unlikely
for near future.

Anyone out there have a machine of their own they'd be willing to set
up as a rec.arts.marching.misc FTP archive?  That might be cool...

Adam Elman
LSJUMB Bonz Roolz
aelman@cs.stanford.edu
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