A great resource is threatened.
November 4, 2001 3:37 PM Subscribe
A great resource is threatened. The Internet FAQ Archives has lost its funding. Although the site is operated by volunteer labor, the bandwidth expenses are high. Can Kent make-up the difference with Paypal donations? Will a new sugardaddy be found? Will TextAds start appearing on the homepage?
is it really that good an idea to post a link to a site with bandwidth issues on mefi?
not that I'm complaining about your link. it's very valid as it would be a legitamite loss to the internet community if it were to vanish. sort of a catch-22, I guess?
posted by mcsweetie at 5:04 PM on November 4, 2001
not that I'm complaining about your link. it's very valid as it would be a legitamite loss to the internet community if it were to vanish. sort of a catch-22, I guess?
posted by mcsweetie at 5:04 PM on November 4, 2001
mcsweetie wrote: is it really that good an idea to post a link to a site with bandwidth issues on mefi?
Maybe, maybe not ... it's the first time I've posted a link. I realize that as a discussion issue, on a scale of 1 to 10 it's about a -3. My thinking was that this is something people might want to know about, and you aren't going to find out about it by reading Annanova.
posted by chipr at 6:14 PM on November 4, 2001
Maybe, maybe not ... it's the first time I've posted a link. I realize that as a discussion issue, on a scale of 1 to 10 it's about a -3. My thinking was that this is something people might want to know about, and you aren't going to find out about it by reading Annanova.
posted by chipr at 6:14 PM on November 4, 2001
well, the point I was trying to make is that posting it is gonna increase their bandwidth usage quite a bit as a small flood of curious mefi users click the link.
posted by mcsweetie at 6:25 PM on November 4, 2001
posted by mcsweetie at 6:25 PM on November 4, 2001
chipr, thanks for letting us know about this.
posted by tranquileye at 6:31 PM on November 4, 2001
posted by tranquileye at 6:31 PM on November 4, 2001
Don't some browsers (e.g. Mozilla) support seamless transfer and display of compressed HTML and text files?
posted by kindall at 8:26 PM on November 4, 2001
posted by kindall at 8:26 PM on November 4, 2001
mcsweetie - Oh, I see. Well, I 'spose it could, but I was hoping a bit of publicity for their plight could be a good thing ... maybe even send a few Paypal donations their way. But you're right, it could just accelerate the end.
kindall - Yes, you are right. The HTTP/1.1 web standard supports Content-Encoding of compressed data. This can be handled transparently in the browser. Heck, it's even possible they already are implementing this feature. I'd have to take a closer look to tell.
posted by chipr at 9:01 PM on November 4, 2001
kindall - Yes, you are right. The HTTP/1.1 web standard supports Content-Encoding of compressed data. This can be handled transparently in the browser. Heck, it's even possible they already are implementing this feature. I'd have to take a closer look to tell.
posted by chipr at 9:01 PM on November 4, 2001
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