While it's a prudent idea, I think that two aspects come into play. First, to publish such a CD, you'd need the assent of EVERY person that's posted to the site, and to some extent, the assent for every POST by every person. This may be beyond impossible, and for those people that aren't contacted or refuse to give assent, it may critically break a thread to uselessness (eg, just getting the answers to a question). The second issue is cost; I doubt there would really be that large of a potental buyers market for this CD as you might think; PM is strictly something that people hear about online unlike, say, a print journal, and the few that might know about it will certainly not offset the cost of large-scale CD production to make it a profit for vroom.

Also, the frequency is too high for what you think. Without knowing what is actually stored, I would suspect we are barely over 650megs total (you're looking at more than 6000bytes a node for that), and that's after 1.5 years of operation. Maybe a distribution of some sort every half year or the like, if such a project were to go on.

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In reply to Re: Perl Monks Cdrom Distribution by Masem
in thread Perl Monks Cdrom Distribution by bladx

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