On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:56, Wesley Parish wrote: > which gives ocw.mit.edu as the operative web site - and paradise.net isn't > interested in resolving it for me, the fscckwits!
It resolves for me. I've been reading bits of the site for 3-4 months now. It is a very good resource. > > Is it possible, since the commercial ISPs are being defunct in their duties > after taking our money, for the University of Canterbury IT to mirror the > MIT's OpenCourseWare site? Doubtful. Most of the site is 5 - 20MB pdfs. Say... 15 to a paper... and how many papers? a) Would they have space to hold it? (maybe the old news server's disks?) b) Who would pay for the traffic? (always a got'ach were internal charging occurs) If enough people want it, ask. If it had more resources, GK[1] might even host it. > > Even then I hold out no faith in paradise.net's ability to maintain an open > contact between me and the University of Canterbury. Paradise has always done a good job for me. Most of the time when I have a internet connection problem, it's normally the other end or Telecom. > > Wesley Parish Later Lee Begg Paradise ADSL customer (happy) Uni of Canterbury student [1] Golden Key International Honour Society. I am their webmaster and a member. www.goldenkey.canterbury.ac.nz
