[Coco] quota : scans of old magazines

[John Guin]

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).

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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