RE: RES: [PSUBS-MAILIST] OT: Copyrights/BOD

[Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>]

Like I said before, I can mirror the Busby project, if
that is helpfull. I have a server, and I'm not afraid
to use it! Frnakly, I can't imagine that the bandwidth
requirements are all that high. (I'll have this
server,
laid off or no.)

Warren.

--- John Brownlee <jonnie@scarymonsters.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Gregory B. Snyder wrote:
> 
> >I don't understand why we would have to charge such
> a high price for
> >membership just because the Busby was on-line.
> 
> 	Nor do I, but I also think that the proposer's have
> something in
> supporting the organization through those fees. For
> example, if we charged
> $5 one time to join this discussion group, how much
> higher would the signal
> to noise ratio be? :-)
> 
> >Wouldn't it be a matter of finding a sponsor who
> could cover the cost of
> >hosting the data on a site.  With the text and
> pictures, I am not sure
> >how many MB of data we are talking about, but I
> assume that it would all
> >fit on one disc.
> 
> 	Easily. My mirror of the Busby project runs about
> 107MB. Finding
> hosts isn't usually the problem, but finding ones
> able to handle the work
> and potential transfer rate is. Experience on my end
> of things says if you
> have a server, and you have users, you will do work.
> It might not be much,
> but some effort will be required eventually.
> 	Incidentally, tell me someone else has mirrored
> this work? I'd hate
> to be the only backup of the online Busby effort.
> 
> -- 
> 							John
> 
> John Brownlee
> Chief Systems Administrator
> Scary Monsters Network
> jonnie at scarymonsters dot net
> 


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