I'm still alive but being kept very busy with other stuff, so, as you
undoubtedly noticed, the incoming/if-archive directory is getting longer and
longer. My main concern is to make uploads immediately available to you, and
so far the easiest way to do this was to just leave the files in the world
readable incoming directory (changing the owner to prevent the files from
being damaged).
Unfortunately our administrator had to activate his automatic cleanup
routine because of disk space problems in this file system, possibly causing
uploads to disappear before I had the time to check them, sort them into the
correct directory, and describe them in the Index file. As a (hopefully)
temporary measure against this, I made a new directory in the archive proper:
ftp.gmd.de:/if-archive/unprocessed
which contains just that: unprocessed uploads. This directory is read-only;
/incoming/if-archive still exists, and uploads should be put only there or
they will be lost, but it contains only the uploads that haven't been moved
to /if-archive/unprocessed yet.
Note: No files have been lost; all the files that were in the incoming
directory are in the unprocessed directory now. And a note to uploaders:
Your letters are still safe in my mailbox; I will answer them when I process
your files.
I hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience. I'm really sorry I can't
spend more time on the archive, but I'm still hopeful that I will eventually
be able to catch up again. Or is there someone out there with enough time
and disk space to spare to take over (i.e. move the archive to her/his site)?
Volker