Re: [OM] eSIF @ nbci R.I.P.

[Ruediger Betzold]

 Hans,

> We also might want to consider making the .PDF files password activated or 
> some other way to prevent spiders from crawling the site to pick up all 
> those attachments.
> 
> How much space does the eSIF take up with and without the .PDF files?

Have you thought about compressing all .PDF files ?

that should reduce at least 20 % af the data from pdf files.
(I just checked some files and used gzip on a UNIX-like system.
 WinZip should do also a good job. you can easily decompress gzip'ed files
 with WinZip or any other ZIP packer (but not vice versa because
 gzip can only handle 1 file in an archive where winzip and other zippers
 put many files in it -- historical reason for this)

ok, one disadvantage everyone HAS to HAVE a zip de/packer. 
One advantage download of the files goes faster as the on the fly compression
of the modem is normaly not so good as precompressed stuff.

just my $0.02


Rudy
  Berlin/Germany



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