Well, some people just can't help themselves, I guess.
A user from Australia (connecting from "regulus.its.deakin.edu.au") just
managed to account for approximately 800f the traffic (approx. 30
Megabytes all by him/herself) from the eSIF mirror on my company's server
in the last 24 hours, by downloading many of the .PDF manuals for the
flashphoto group, the winder group, the body group, the lens group, the
macrophoto group, etc.
Whoever he/she is, he/she either owns all these toys (and none of the
manuals) or is simply being foolish. If *this* kind of wholesale "guzzling
from the trough" keeps going, my partners will yank the account regardless
of my protestations (or they'll yank the Olympus Gallery to compensate).
Folks, the eSIF mirror is a *service*, not a freakin' publishing
house. Use it when you need it, not just "because it's there." It costs
me, via my company, real money. If my partners decide it's an avocation of
mine that's too expensive for the company, it's gone without ceremony, and
there's nothing I'll be able to do except to announce its sad demise after
the fact.
And remember, they monitor it, so they *know* how it's being used. Like
your mothers used to say, "Sip dear, don't gulp."
Garth
"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" -- W.C. Fields
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