Re: Marry, or partially mirror, MicroPal and Paleonet?

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Norm is away for a couple of weeks so you will have to await his return for
an authoritative answer to this, but for what its worth I think this is an
excellent suggestion, well within the spirit of paleonet.  I can also
certainly confirm that accessing WWW sites in N.America from here is
painfully slow - and seems to be getting slower. There shouldn't be any
"political" problems from this end in setting up a mirror of the paleonet
site elsewhere. On the other hand museum pages whether at ucmp or the nhm
would be politically trickier to mirror.

Jeremy Young


>For us in the US, it can take a frustratingly long time to display large
>images and to make hypertext jumps in interactive programs that reside on
>servers in Europe, and European geologists have told me that the same is
>true in the reverse direction.  These delays may well be sufficient to
>discourage some people from viewing complicated interactive programs for
>which a trans-Atlantic server has to be accessed frequently.
>
>Would it be possible to duplicate the interactive programs at ucmp1 at nhm,
>and vice versa?  I ask this in complete ignorance of the logical and
>political implications, but as one who suspects that there is substantial
>overlap between the subscribers to micropal and to paleonet.
>
>                                                Bill R.
>
>W. Riedel
>Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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