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.Proprclr. typed...
>On 19 Oct 2002 12:31:57 -0700, unkno...@yahoo.com
>(unknown2340)sayeth::
>>I tried to go to 3darchives.net (ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/), and I
>>just got a "web site not found" message. Was it shut down or
>>something?
> It's a real pain in the ass to use. Try
>http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/idgames
>(paste whatever's after idgames on a 3darchives url to
>tjhe end of the url above). It seems 3darchives has become
>the new cdrom.com in that everyone points to, and overloads it
>as a result.

Here's a couple of other things I've found that take about the same
amount of effort as cutting and pasting URLs:

1. Go to www.doomsearch.com, pick a mirror from the menu and type in the
name of the wad you're after. You might get more than one match but
hopefully it will be obvious which one you want.

2. If you're making a web page with a link to a wad you could use this:
http://www.doomworld.com/d_underg/idgames.shtml/levels/doom2/Ports/m-o/nuts.zip
to use the infamous map-with-10,000-monsters as a random example.

Both of these save you remembering any of the other mirror locations and
indeed the necessary directory postfix (/pub/idgames,
/pub/games/idgames/, /pub/pc/games/idgames/, etc. They're all different)

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