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Subject: [OM] the eSIF mirror on taiga
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:29:27 -0700
Well, some people just can't help themselves, I guess.

A user from Australia (connecting from "regulus.its.deakin.edu.au") just managed to account for approximately 800f the traffic (approx. 30 Megabytes all by him/herself) from the eSIF mirror on my company's server in the last 24 hours, by downloading many of the .PDF manuals for the flashphoto group, the winder group, the body group, the lens group, the macrophoto group, etc.

Whoever he/she is, he/she either owns all these toys (and none of the manuals) or is simply being foolish. If *this* kind of wholesale "guzzling from the trough" keeps going, my partners will yank the account regardless of my protestations (or they'll yank the Olympus Gallery to compensate).

Folks, the eSIF mirror is a *service*, not a freakin' publishing house. Use it when you need it, not just "because it's there." It costs me, via my company, real money. If my partners decide it's an avocation of mine that's too expensive for the company, it's gone without ceremony, and there's nothing I'll be able to do except to announce its sad demise after the fact.

And remember, they monitor it, so they *know* how it's being used. Like your mothers used to say, "Sip dear, don't gulp."

Garth

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" -- W.C. Fields


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