I regret to inform the Olympus Mailing List that the Olympus e-SIF, hosted for
9 - 10 months now on my company's servers, is being turned off.
This unfortunate development arises because of twin classic economic problems:
"free riders" and "tragedy of the commons". Bandwidth usage for people
attempting to download the *entire* e-SIF exceeded 90-950f all available
bandwidth for which my company pays. This has resulted in others being unable
to access the servers for their mail, restricted Web access for other clients,
and so forth. I was informed of this problem this A.M., and immediately
instructed our techs to switch the e-SIF off.
It *may* return in the future in some limited form, or it *may* be made
available subject to throttling by our corporate firewall (probably throttled
by daily overall limits rather than by IP address, to prevent people from "IP
hopping" to get around the restrictions).
I apologize to everybody for this problem, but as I warned people many months
ago, unless some self-discipline was going to be exercised by those who wanted
access to the e-SIF, eventually everybody would suffer. Once again, basic
economics predicts socially destructive behaviour with chilling accuracy.
Hans, Olaf, I'd appreciate it if you could contact me off-line so we can kick
around ideas to bring the e-SIF back whilst dealing with the "piggies at the
trough" problem we've experienced.
Garth Wood
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