Sunday, August 3, 2003 at 8:43 PM Since I began recording Loveline last July it has become a hobby for me to add to my Loveline "collection", I assume that I am not the only one who has quite a few shows, some I downloaded, and some are my original recordings. Since the time that SV added this forum to her site, we all have been able to establish a pretty stable community of Loveline fans, and I am happy to be able to share my collection with everyone else (actually one of the more influencing factors in why I record the shows), just as I am very appreciative of those who make their resources available to me...
This leads me to a request for everyone who reads this forum; if you have a bit of spare time, spare bandwith, or any other kind of useful input, I would like to ask you to please share it with this community. Even though there are at least 3 FTP's with shows available, I do feel that there is currently more demand than there is supply, and it seems the solution must be more contributors. The simplest way of giving back is sharing the files you have on p2p networks like WinMX and Kazaa, and I think that even a small amount of people starting to do this would make a huge difference. My friend who hosts my FTP on his cable has also begun to leave a connection to WinMX open most times with all of the FTP shows shared; and if a pretty good population of people on the p2p networks start to obtain and share the shows, this itself will offload a lot of the demand from 3 individual (and bandwith limited) connections.
Another thing that I noticed is we (as a community) are missing most of the shows from earlier than 2001/2002... It is understandable that further back airdates are harder to retain, but I imagine that there are people out there who have old shows either in digital format or on cassette tapes... Another great way to contribute would be to somehow get those shows into circulation. I personally only have good quality and complete shows starting from July 2002, and I hope someday that someone will share their quality recordings from years ago (I can dream can't I?)... I would love to do whatever is in my power to get people on their feet, and all it takes is e-mailing me... Thanks for reading this (those of you who actually read this far), and please consider my request! —Kevin U. |
