X-Digest-Num: 7 Message-ID: <44114.7.45.959273823@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:54:56 +0100 From: Thorild Selen Subject: Lojban Central/Lojban archive site will be moving soon - pls comment X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 45 Content-Length: 3087 Lines: 69 Logical Language Group writes: > Anyone who knows ISPs serving the DC area can feel free to make > recommendations. Two I am checking out are CAIS and Radixnet. > I am looking for shell capability if possible, since I use shell > rather than Windows/PPP for most of my access, but John Cowan thinks > this may not be necessary for LLG operations (though I know how to > do very little from PPP accesses except browse the Web). It might be quite useful! I suggest that you try to get it, unless it will cost a lot more. > who access the site. So I would like opinions, especially from overseas > Lojbanists who may have fewer options or less robust net connections. This shouldn't be a problem, I think. It would be good to have a few mirrors, though. However, I don't think that Lojban is that popular yet, that bandwidth and server capacity will be a big issue. > 1. Some providers offer Web space but do not provide anonymous FTP access > (a URL ftp//... invokes this kind of access). Is there anyone out there > who cannot use Web access (http// URL) to access the Lojban pages, or do > we need to be able to continue to support FTP to reach all our overseas > supporters? If somebody wants ftp access, then you could have an ftp mirror. It shouldn't matter much whether the main site supports anonymous ftp or not. > 2. Since we are paying $1/megabyte, we have avoided enlarging the material > hosted on the site except for things that we are pretty sure will be useful. One could encourage others to set up other Lojban sites. It would of course be a good thing to have all the useful stuff in one place, though... > 3. How important is the speed of connectivity to the LOjban Web site to > you? We have several options with smaller ISPs which do not have anywhere near > as high a throughput as Digex, which operates its own US-nationwide backbone > at extremely high data rates. Aim for cheap -- until it's time for streaming video, Live from Lojbanistan. No, really, what would you need that bandwidth for? I don't think there will ever be hundreds of people accessing the site simultaneously. Not within a few years, at least. > 4. Sould we consider getting our own address space - probably www.lojban.org? Yes, I think that should be considered! It would be good to have an address that's easy to remember and recognise. > 5. In all likelihood I will try to gain the use of both lojban@ and lojbab@ Good idea -- you could use one for official messages and the other for more personal stuff. > 7. Note that this account is officially an LLG account and not my personal > account, though I don't use a separate account for personal stuff. I am not Lots of people use accounts at work/school for personal stuff. If you have several mailboxes and use one for official purposes (lojban@whatever) and one for personal purposes (lojbab@...) I don't think anybody would complain, as long as you use it responsibly. Thorild (who ought to make some more efforts to learn lojban soon... has had lots to do lately.)