Lojban Central/Lojban archive site will be moving soon - pls comment

[Thorild Selen <thorild@Update.UU.SE>]

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.)