DougE wrote:

> 2. Beware of copyrights.  I planned on giving credit to
>     everyone anyhow, but evidently I will need permission
>     before including anything just to be on the safe side.
>    As long as I do that, I don't see any problems.

I personally see this as the safest course of action. People
don't mind sharing but they do like to know how their work
is being distributed.
 
> 3. The newsgroups add up to over 100 megs of data,
>     and since all that info will have to be duplicated at
>     the site it's going to be large and time-consuming.

My guess would be over 100 megs and this is the text only messages.
The server currently is allocated around 700 megs and is well over
half full now. I see the real problem here as one of content. While
there are many messages with valuable content there is also quite
a bit-o-junk too. It would be a monumental task sifting through the
individual messages trying to find those that someone might find
useful and those that would serve no purpose being repeated.
 Personally I would attack this from a different angle. Instead of
trying to mirror the contents of this news server at a private web
site I would suggest you comb through the scene-files and utilities
groups and suck out the resource related content (with permission
of the original poster of course). There are quite few resources
that those who don't frequent these news groups are missing.
Doing this would in all likelihood cause no problems with the
news admin what so ever.
 
> Ken Tyler mentioned that he was going to check with admin to see if they are
> okay with all of this.

In process. No definitive answer as of yet.

>  Assuming that they are, then I will have to find out
> just how large an amount of data we are actually talking about.

See above.

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