[Coco] quota : scans of old magazines

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 12:55, John Guin wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>This thread forces an issue I was going to raise in a few weeks.  I
> plan on using my scanner to scan my set of Color Computer Magazines
> and Hot Coco magazines to PDF files.  Mostly I'm doing this for
> myself - the paper and staples holding these issues together aren't
> going to last much longer, and I would like a more permanent method
> of storing them.
>
>Afterwards, I thought about uploading them to the web, but hit some
> concerns. 1.  Copyright concerns.  One of the reasons I wasn't
> doing this for the Rainbow is that at one point Lonnie Falk was
> offering back issues, and I did not want to cut into his potential
> sales.  (The square binding and later newspaper formats was another
> concern).

Lonnie has previously indicated a somewhat anal position vis-a-vis his 
copyrights, so thats (putting them on the web) a place I don't think 
I'd want to go.

There are however, many others who have been far more co-operative.

>2.  I would potentially cut into the sales/bid prices for anyone
> related to this group who wanted to sell his or her copies of these
> magazines.  While most of the members of this group probably have
> the info they want, I could see someone trying to sell duplicate or
> unwanted magazines, and any upload I have could potentially
> eliminate a buyer from the sales process.
>
>3.  Bandwidth problems - I don't know if anyone would have the
> time/space/interest in hosting what would probably be around 850MB
> of PDFs.
>
>So, please respond to me or the group for 1 and 2, and little 'r' me
> for 3 if you have a solution.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Roger Taylor
>  To: bathory at maltedmedia.com ; CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:24 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] quota
>
>
>  At 09:10 AM 12/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>    You need a service that averages monthly, not daily. Storage is
> cheap, bandwidth not nearly as expnsive as it used to be. My
> bandwidth quota has gone up significantly every six months (it's
> now at 20GB storage, 60GB/month traffic, averaged).
>
>    Even the $6/month plan at my host is 100MB storage and 3GB/month
>    traffic.
>
>    Dennis
>
>
>  Thanks, Dennis, and to everyone else who commented.
>
>  I've already placed the larger downloads on another site I have
> with them in hopes this will divide the load up enough to make it
> to rollover time (end of the month).  Boo.  Ofcourse, this should
> be no surprise to anybody who has run a web site.  I guess it
> happens to everybody, eventually.  How else would we know it's time
> to move up?
>
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