I have downloaded and compressed 1485 maps from quaddicted/dm and quakeworld.us into a single .7z archive that weighs 245 megs (unpacked 1.7 gigs or so).

Is there anyone out there that would find this useful, or would like to host it?

Did you include the readme files?
My archive is missing a lot of the original zips and thus many readmes

I would like to host it

my gawd.. more maps?

i'm gettind tired of updating my maps collection.. people should stop making maps for a while now until i finish filtering all of them.. quake maps spam!

I know it's bad to distribute the maps without the original readmes and whatever, but i found it easier to sort them out and extract them this way.

I figure if you want the original zips, or the readmes you could check out quaddicted.com's map list and go from there.

I'll upload them to a server tonight and pm people the link if they want to host or dl it. (PM me if you want it)

I'd like to make screenshots of all of them and will do so if someone ever makes a conveniently available download of all of them.

A reference I made with 170 maps a year ago

And if it ever does become available, I'll zip the screenshots up in and make them available for whoever wants to do whatever with them.

(And this time I won't make the mistake of having the HUD visible in the screenshots and won't have custom textures)

there is already a thred @ http://quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=745

try to help them there instead fenris

You could easily provide a torrent with DHT (trackerless distributed thingie). µtorrent and Azureus (amongst others) support it. Or you could use 88.84.140.117 as tracker or some open tracker like piratebay.