Author: Sergei Smith
Date: 16:18:30 08/27/01
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On August 27, 2001 at 12:44:42, Sergei Smith wrote: >On August 27, 2001 at 12:33:18, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>Mr. Smith, >> >>I assume that you live in North America. Tell us more about your chess >>database. >> >>You could sell the chess database and raise the funds necessary for a CD burner. >> After you got the money and installed the CDRW then you could deliver the >>product. In any case, you can get a CDRW internal from $100.00 to $200.00 US. >> >>You might have other friends with CD burners. Ask them. >> >>Tim Frohlick >> > > >Why would I sell the database ? I collected freeware pgn games I downloaded from >the net, killed the doubles and compressed them into a an ace file. >My friends do not have CD burners and I'm not interested in buying one. I don't >intend sell CD's, I just want to get these games over to my buddy in Poland. > >Btw just call me Sam > > >> >>On August 27, 2001 at 08:25:41, Sergei Smith wrote: >> >>>How to forward a huge chess database of about 650,000 Kb .ace to an "online >>>friend" ? >>> >>>My polish friend does not have a CD rom burner and I do not have it either. >>>Hiring the services of a desktop-publishing agency that has one to burn CD's to >>>forward them by snail mail is expensive. >>> >>>Are there any cheaper alternatives ? >>> >>>Multiple accounts at >>>Whalemail >>>http://whalemail.com >>>or Kturn >>>http://www.kturn.com/ >>>... but there's no "resume upload" option. >>>(50Mb x 13 times is the maximum number of times I want load a spanned file) >>> >>>Peer-to-peer Napster and related programs. >>> >>>A chess geek with an FTP site who's willing to keep the (freeware) database for >>>a few weeks till my buddy has downloaded it. >>> >>>Any other alternatives ? I just downloaded a kind of Napster but that wouldn't be a good idea because anybody can poke about in your PC. Maybe there is a more secure Napster with proxy support and IP protection?
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