discuss: Business card CD-Rs
Subject:
Re: Business card CD-Rs
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
17 Mar 2001 17:14:07 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103170903310.5043-100000@crazypenguins.commandprompt.com>
>But I think that older CD ROM drives can't handle them. If they have
>a newer CD drive they likely also have a modem that can download the LDP
>docs in less than 30 minutes.
I have a 768K DSL and it takes much longer than 30 minutes to download all
of the archives.
>on another virtual console. Downloading insures that the info is as
>fresh as can be and that they get it in the format they prefer.
Not everybody wants to go to the LDP website. Some people just want the
information.
Plus the DISC gives something to people so they can hold it. Physical
representation is very powerful.
I
>understand that some cheap CD-Rs may be defective.
>
>I suggest that we give away flyer sheets telling about the LDP and
>listing a couple of nearby mirror sites (after checking them out first
>to make sure they're alive).
>
> David Lawyer
>
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