[sdiy] - Service Manual Project -

[Seb Francis]

Donald Tillman wrote:
>    > Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 22:16:23 -0400
>    > From: "Mo Rosati" <mo at laurelsteel.com>
>    > 
>    > Your right, the biggest concern is BANDWIDTH ( specifically the
>    > cost of bandwidth ).  
>
> Huh?  The bandwidth is tiny.  Given that people are posting video
> clips all over the place, the bandwidth requirement of a collection of
> rarely accessed manuals for obscure equipment is truly negligible.
>
>   

It's not so tiny.  I posted a 20MB Roland service manual the other day 
and noticed my bandwidth usage jump by almost 1GB over a very short 
period.  Mind you that's probably a reflection of Roland's current 
policy of asking other service manual archives to remove the Roland ones 
.. which ties in with the other concern being raised.

Maybe it would help if one had to register and login to see the list of 
what manuals were available.  Nothing restrictive, perhaps even a 
robots.txt file would do it, but then at least the list of manuals isn't 
going to show up in Google when Roland or whoever do a search.  Mind you 
then the same is true for anyone else doing a search :-(

Seb