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

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Cyrus Shaoul wrote:

> 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.

 	Have you looked into uploading it to archive.org or to the Oxford 
Text Archive?

 					-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
 					grvsmth at panix.com

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<http://saferskillman.org>.

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