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Forwarded letter from Tony Mace about website possibility.

Please read the attached letter completely.  Is there someone here who
understands the technical stuff better than I do and could work with him on
learning how to ftp to his site, etc.?

Tony Mace wrote:
>
> In message <377A1D0A.B75E4FA1@netzero.net> Diana Pederson writes:
> > Hi Tony Mace:
> >
> > The On-Line Sansevieria club has just run into a sudden need for a new
> > server.  Yshoo took over Geocities and is now claiming full copyright to
> > all information uploaded to that server.  We desperately need to have our
> > material moved since we, as a group, were just in the process of making
> > some major upgrades.
> >
> > Is there any chance that this could be uploaded to the Cactus and Succulent
> > mall?
>
> I have heard of one or two other stories of some of the free webspace
> suppliers claiming this copyright.  It seems somewhat outrageous.  I
> don't know how they will try to enforce this in some European countries
> where I understand copyright can only be assigned in a written contract.
> It sounds like more financial opportunities for the lawyers.
>
> I think it is possible we can provide a home for your pages.
>
> There is no problem with space on the Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall.
> I rent 100Mb and am currently only using about half of this.  I do have
> one problem, in that the Cactus Mall has been so sucessful in attracting
> traffic (we are averaging around 1,100 vistors a day), that I am starting
> to get excess bandwidth charges.  These are as yet not very large but I need
> to watch the situation does not get out of hand.  I have acquired from
> various sources a further 60Mb of webspace which I can use for various
> purposes (eg I have some personal webspace, some belongs to the BCSS and
> I have a couple of other free sources) and I am using these to reduce the
> bandwidth usage of the main site.
>
> A few questions about the Sanseviera website:
>
>  How much space do you need?
>
>  Can you give me any idea of the current vistor rate so that I can
>  estimate the usage?
>
>  Apart from storage of standard html and image files does this website
>  need any extra software facilities?
>
> There is one other thing which might be a problem for you.  You can
> upload pages to the cactus mall by anonymous FTP (ftp://www.cactus-mall.com)
> but this does not upload into the live area for security reasons. When you
> have uploaded updates etc you would have to notify me to make the transfer
> to the live area.  I think in practise this would not be a great problem
> since there will rarely be more than a 24 hour delay before I or someone
> else here does this. It is possible for other people to have a password and
> account on the Cactus Mall to do this, but our supplier charges for this
> facility and I would have to pass the costs on (It is something like 5 US$
> per month which is rather a lot unless such a facility is used heavily).
>
> --
> Tony Mace
> http://www.cactus-mall.com
> The Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall


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Diana Pederson, Lansing, Michigan, United States, USDA Zone 5
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