Finally broke down and did it

[jj]

Over a couple of weeks, so as not to spam the aminet.net servers, I mirrored all of aminet.net locally. This is something that I have been dying to do for some time now (especially when it goes down for some unknown reason).

Total content size is about 53.39GB. I may try to burn this to Blu-Ray or several DVDs just to keep a hard copy as well. Now periodic syncing with Transmit for the Mac is all I need to keep it up to date. Yay.

Is that all aminet is.  cant imagine there is much traffic now either.  Could easily host that locally at home as a welsh mirror

[jj]

you have internet in Wales :eek: Respect :laughing:

:laughing:

[jj]

so we shouldn't do this ?

http://wiki.aminet.net/How_to_set_up_an_Aminet_mirror

[jj]

Wow, just wow. The guy running Aminet is telling you that downloading the entire archive is considered abuse - and in return he gets a bunch of middle fingers?

Impressive conduct.

Get over yourself.  Sorry for not knowing who you are.

It was a serious question

[jj]

The link has been removed now (12th Jan).

I didn't read your comment as a middle finger either. Like many I suppose, I was slightly confused too as to why there were instructions to do something that one shouldn't do.

Hi, thanks for the clarification.  Are you also connected to Aminet?