Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 438.
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[1] From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au> (30)
Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups
[2] From: DrWender@aol.com (24)
Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups
[3] From: Norman Hinton <hinton@SPRINGNET1.COM> (2)
Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:52:39 +0000
From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups
On 07/12/2003, at 8:49 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard
McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
>I think of a different solution, i.e. that pages of academic interest
>be hosted by academic, that is university, servers, whose pages are
>without unnecessary pop-ups and free of charge. At least this is
>my experience. Responsibles should be encouraged to be
>broadminded about the "afference" of research results to their
>institution, in case such research does not directly depend on
>one of their departments etc.
Minor correction. They are not hosted free of charge. Bandwidth is always
paid for by someone. Here at RMIT it is at the local (department level). It
used to be at the university level.
At the moment the department and the university are sanguine about
bandwidth for legitimate purposes (a conference I ran got slashdotted and
we managed I think 5Gg of downloads in a couple of days), but very
aggressive if they think it is mp3s and so on.
I agree that content should be hosted by us in the academy while this
situation is the case. Personally I host some content for others, and
regularly invite people to use the server I control for their projects.
Many people seem not to realise that while server space, commercial, free,
or institutional, is cheap, bandwidth is not. It is bandwidth that we in
the institutions can provide.
So, if there are any electronic scholars out there, get in touch. I have an
electronic scholar's proposal ready and waiting!
cheers
Adrian Miles
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:53:09 +0000
From: DrWender@aol.com
Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups
>This might be an opportunity for some academic institution to offer to host
>the Joyce conference site pro bono.
>
>Lisa L. Spangenberg
[...]
>I think of a different solution, i.e. that pages of academic interest
>be hosted by academic, that is university, servers, whose pages are
>without unnecessary pop-ups and free of charge. At least this is
>my experience. Responsibles should be encouraged to be
>broadminded about the "afference" of research results to their
>institution, in case such research does not directly depend on
>one of their departments etc.
>
>On the other hand, researchers should be alerted on the fact that
>their pages should be as austere and simple as the normal printed
>academic books.
>
>The Humanist community might be interested. Tito Orlandi
The first need seems me to be an evaluation if the new site
presents the stuff worth to be printed in "normal printed
academic books" resp. hosted by 'academic institutions'.
Are comments from the JJ research community already
available?
Herbert Wender
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:53:37 +0000
From: Norman Hinton <hinton@SPRINGNET1.COM>
Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups
I use Netscape 7.1 as my browser-- it has a pop-up blocker, and I have not
seen a single pop-up in 6 months.
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