Harvey and all,
One of the best things you could do for Morgan, once the site's financial support is assured, would be to host a "mirror" site or backup space for yellow jersey. Just having an additional site that was mirroring Yellow Jersey or backing it up would be very helpful, I suspect.
Thanks very much to Rick Cool and others who have offered me "Mac tech support" from near and far. I'm still browser-less, but making progress.
Regards,
Jon Spangler in Alameda, CA USA
On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:58 AM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
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> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:03:03 -0400
> From: Harvey Sachs <hmsachs@verizon.net>
> To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>,
> dima@rogers.com, Wayne Bingham <blkmktbks@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Wool Jersey
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> I think this is a great idea, and worth doing. But, in the long run, I
> wonder if we aren't asking too much of Morgan, or anyone else, and not
> using the strength of the web to "jujitsu" things to our own benefit?
>
> Increasingly over the past few months, I've gotten frustrated
> because it
> has been too much trouble to save all the bookmarks of all the neat
> postings, and all the other sites. Relying on Morgan, or anyone
> else, is
> like having a single main-frame with no back-up.
>
> What happens instead if we think in terms of a "distributed"
> architecture, like networked PCs? What if a hundred of us establish
> our
> own web pages, with links to as many others as we can? This mimics
> the
> web as a whole, and avoids single-point failures from the
> termination of
> any single account. I mean, like I could post everything I know and
> have
> ever seen and still have space left on my ISP server space
> allocation. I
> think. Why put the $$ burden on one volunteer?
>
> Yeah, there will still be frustrations with some dead links, but if we
> get clever, our web sites would have a way to notify the owners when a
> link has died.
>
> If there is support for this, I, Harvey Sachs, just might avail myself
> of the free hosting by my ISP and learn enough to put up my photos
> on a
> site, and link to CR, Wool Jersey, and at least some of the other
> great
> sites that we read about on this list. And I'm about the least
> computer-literate and most cro-magnon on this list. :-)
>
> Harvey Sachs
> McLean VA
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