OK, here's a crazy idea from someone who knows approximately ****-all about
the delicacies of the internet, programming, etc....
I do know that with most ISP's you get a small amount of web space provided
for free. How about we each take a "section" of the e-sif and host that
section. One member (I suggest whoever was running it before) has a single
page, with links to all the other individual pages. Sure, it would take a
while longer to download each page, but that's better than nothing, right ?
As someone pointed out - the e-sif is the single most useful tool available
to us (although I may personally say that our OM's are the most useful tool,
and the e-sif is the 2nd most useful !!) :)
I volunteer for a page or two, as I'm not using my allocation (at the
moment - I'm hoping to change that !). Having never done any web stuff, I
may need a little help uploading it, but I'm willing to give it a go.
Just a thought,
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of GeoW
Sent: 24 January 2002 21:50
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus e-SIF is offline
Garth,
What can we do as list members to get it back on line. The e-SIF is by far
the best
information source for the OM System and we should be very concerned as a
group
of didicated OM lovers.... users to recover the e-SIF. I'll be willing to do
my part if
i'm able.
GeoW
> 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 90-95%
> of 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.
>
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