On Wednesday, November 05, 2014 06:57:02 PM Klaatu wrote:
> Let's ping the guy who instigated the project and ask what's up with it.
> 
> Deepgeek, any word on where the torrents went?
> -klaatu
> 
> On 11/05/2014 08:08 AM, Bert Yerke wrote:
> > On Monday, November 25, 2013 06:22:45 PM dg wrote:
> >> Hi, all,
> >> 
> >> What gives?  A sad day it is for me to realize, after listening to the
> >> last HPR community news (where it was said "a few people slurped 
the
> >> whole feed,") that I can't find a legal torrent for hpr?  I thought
> >> surly archive.org would be torrenting our files, but they appear to 
not
> >> be doing this.
> >> 
> >> So I actually have 73 Gig on my zfs array available, but my 
collection
> >> is a hodge-podge mix of mp3 and ogg.  I thought of doing it on my 
own
> >> totally and claiming to be some kind of torrent hero, but I thought
> >> better that I might first check to see if anybody made any 
attempts
> >> along these lines and that my info was correct before proceeding.  
It
> >> would also be nice to know if anybody has a legal private tracker
> >> before trying to duplicate effort.
> >> 
> >> I'm thinking that if even a third of this list can seed just when they
> >> are home at their computer, we can have a pretty good torrent 
going
> >> into the future, relieving bandwidth on the main server and 
possibly
> >> averting web bottlenecks and unnecessary bandwidth issues.
> >> 
> >> I'm wondering whether or not to start with the first one thousand 
eps
> >> of the speex or ogg format.  I guess the mp3 might be more 
poplar
> > 
> > (and
> > 
> >> might cut bandwidth needs better, as those files are the largest) 
but I
> >> come here to brainstorm before doing anything.
> >> 
> >> Ken, is it possible that I could get a password into the main 
servers
> >> ftp to do one big efficient slurp sometime in the future?  Or do you
> >> have any sneaky tar files anywhere?
> >> 
> >> yours,
> >> ---
> >> DG
> >> 
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> > 
> > It seems like this project has been abandoned. The tracker on info-
> > underground is no longer active. For those of you that prefer 
torrents
> > for you downloading pleasure, I am considering adding a known 
good
> > tracker for these and also splitting the torrents into years instead 
of
> > one torrent containing everything.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> > Bert Yerke
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Do you have a way to get hold of Deepgeek? I haven't heard from him in 
quite a while.

Bert

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