Is there a write-up for this? (was: 134a conversionupdate)-venturing OT...

[brett@netacc.net (Brett Van Sprewenburg)]

>Hey hey, my site has been down a total of 2 times in 4
>years, once the motherboard died, and the other ATT&T
>screwed me up.
>
>now that disclaimer said, I understand the issue at hand,
>as far as having me mirroring scirocco.org, this could be
>discussed offline (email : pbureau@attbi.com) and perhaps
>we can come to an arrangement. But I don;t understand
>what difference there is between hosting a mirror of a
>section of scirocco.org versus simply you having a
>link.?? could you explain that one for me (kinda blond
>right now)
>


Ah, you have misunderstood what I was talking about.  What
I was suggesting is that you actually PUT content ON the
scirocco.org machine / host.  It can be a mirror of what  you
are hosting on your own site, a subset, or even a superset if
you were so inclined.  You (or people like you that wanted to
contribute like this) would be responsible for putting the proper
content into the scirocco.org tech section, or FAQ area.  Do you
get my drift here? :)

Your site was only 'unavailable' more then twice this year if I
remember correctly (note remember correctly), but once (or twice?)
it could only be accessed via an IP address instead of a name,
which would naturally have broken all linked material also.  I'm not
trying to debate how 'hearty' anybody's particular site is, I'm just
using some examples as to why I do not really like just linking to
other peoples content...soooo sooo many have come and gone,
moved, gone down, changed linking / URLs / content or what-ever,
that it's generally not worth the hassle or administration for content.
Just linking to a site at the 'top' level though is another thing entirely,
which is what the more generic 'Links' section on scirocco.org is for.
I am really tired of being dependent on other peoples hardware and
bandwidth to run our system...note how many times our mail service
has been interrupted this year.... :/  It would be especially troublesome
to have to police the site content areas as well as the links section.

Anyway, the real point here is that I'm asking if you'd like to help
administer the tech section within the scirocco.org site by mirroring
what you've put up on your own (or a portion of it).  You seem to have
real energy around even documenting what many might consider even
the mundane. :-)  We can work out the details of this offline though,
whether you'd like to or not, how the transfers could happen, editing, etc.

Thanks.

==Brett

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