Robert G. Ferrell writes:
>
>... The U.S. government has decided that my "Internet Report" site, where I
> summarized the drafts and RFCs issued each week in tabular format, was
> "inappropriate" and even a "political embarrassment" because it had
> no direct bearing on the mission of my agency....
Untrue. The use of the Internet to convey siesmological information
was well established in 1991, when USGS was given a great deal of free
bandwidth. The web is still used for the same purpose today, as is
NNTP and email.
Perhaps whoever said that wanted to revive the UUCP host siesmo, one of
the central hubs of UUCP, the original peer-to-peer file sharing system.
Someone needs to ask what kind of redundancy the USGS expects given the
next major metropolitan earthquake, compared to what level would be
appropriate. I still remember seeing the relevant documents in the
Government Depository Library in Charleston, West Virginia (main capitol
complex, top floor of library, out the elevator, about twelve paces on
the left, third shelf from the bottom.)
Cheers,
James
