[Corpora-List] Seeking beta-testers for new BitTorrent distribution of my USENET corpus.

[Cyrus Shaoul]

Fellow list members,

As you may know, I have been distributing a 20 billion word corpus of  
USENET postings over HTTP for a few years, but recently, I have been 
getting a lot
of feedback from prospective users of the corpus. They have found the 
bandwidth limits on my server have made it difficult to download the corpus.

To alleviate this problem, I have split the corpus into 4 parts, and 
made it available using BitTorrent. I am seeking beta-testers to try out 
this method of corpus distribution.

Please help the community by downloading part or all of the corpus, and 
leaving your BitTorrent client on so that others can download the corpus 
faster.

(Also, please check with your network administrators before using 
BitTorrent on academic or corporate networks. There may
be certain policies in place that will prevent you from using torrents 
on those networks.)

The new download page is here:

    
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/usenetcorpus.download.html

Yours,

Cyrus


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Cyrus Shaoul
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/
Dept of Psychology
University of Alberta
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