ebooks libre et gratuits
Ebooks libre et gratuits had an arrangement with MH apparently where their books would appear on PG eventually. Now that the ebooks web site is no more, what will happen to the ebooksgratuits which did not make it to PG? Will all of this work have to be repeated by someone else? Is there an archive anywhere of this enormous quantitiiy of work? Why did ebooksgratuits disappear? Pressure from Canadian publishers/ government? Is there an unknown story here? nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu
The site is now available again: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ See the front page of the Web site for what I believe (my French is almost nonexistent) is an explanation of what happened. On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:58:58 -0400, you wrote:
Ebooks libre et gratuits had an arrangement with MH apparently where their books would appear on PG eventually. Now that the ebooks web site is no more, what will happen to the ebooksgratuits which did not make it to PG? Will all of this work have to be repeated by someone else? Is there an archive anywhere of this enormous quantitiiy of work? Why did ebooksgratuits disappear? Pressure from Canadian publishers/ government? Is there an unknown story here?
nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu
On Sunday 25 June 2006 10:25 am, Janet Kegg wrote:
The site is now available again: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/
See the front page of the Web site for what I believe (my French is almost nonexistent) is an explanation of what happened.
The news item roughly translated is: As you probably noted, the site was inaccessible for over a week; the reason is that our ISP shut down following "A crippling DDOS attack" which they were not able to successfully block. We changed ISPs, and the site is once again available. We will take the necessary means so that this type of thing cannot happen again; I will speak about it again very soon.
In article <200606251622.35322.donovan@abs.net>, D Garcia <donovan@abs.net> writes
On Sunday 25 June 2006 10:25 am, Janet Kegg wrote:
The site is now available again: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/
See the front page of the Web site for what I believe (my French is almost nonexistent) is an explanation of what happened.
The news item roughly translated is:
As you probably noted, the site was inaccessible for over a week; the reason is that our ISP shut down following "A crippling DDOS attack" which they were not able to successfully block. We changed ISPs, and the site is once again available. We will take the necessary means so that this type of thing cannot happen again; I will speak about it again very soon.
They are being rather optimistic but we will have to wait and see if their "mesures nécessaires" work. -- Philip Baker
I think that this shows the value of the PG approach (What MH likes to call "Unlimited distribution"), where the whole collection is mirrored in many different locations. So if the main server is down, there are plenty of alternate sites availible. Andrew On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Philip Baker wrote:
In article <200606251622.35322.donovan@abs.net>, D Garcia <donovan@abs.net> writes
As you probably noted, the site was inaccessible for over a week; the reason is that our ISP shut down following "A crippling DDOS attack" which they were not able to successfully block. We changed ISPs, and the site is once again available. We will take the necessary means so that this type of thing cannot happen again; I will speak about it again very soon.
They are being rather optimistic but we will have to wait and see if their "mesures nécessaires" work.
"Andrew" == Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> writes:
Andrew> I think that this shows the value of the PG approach (What Andrew> MH likes to call "Unlimited distribution"), where the Andrew> whole collection is mirrored in many different Andrew> locations. So if the main server is down, there are plenty Andrew> of alternate sites availible. Andrew> Andrew They do allow mirroring the collection, just nobody did. I think that they cannot afford to pay several sites (but clearly they keep copies). They work as Life+50, so a mirroring by PG is impossible (but might be possible by a PG+50) Carlo
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:40:55PM -0700, Andrew Sly wrote:
I think that this shows the value of the PG approach (What MH likes to call "Unlimited distribution"), where the whole collection is mirrored in many different locations. So if the main server is down, there are plenty of alternate sites availible.
Andrew
I think Michael's approach to unlimited distribution is a little different, but not that different. What you're actually talking about is gbn's approach to belt+suspenders when it comes to server resiliency. Insert obligatory Linux Torvalds quote about mirroring, here. -- Greg
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Philip Baker wrote:
In article <200606251622.35322.donovan@abs.net>, D Garcia <donovan@abs.net> writes
As you probably noted, the site was inaccessible for over a week; the reason is that our ISP shut down following "A crippling DDOS attack" which they were not able to successfully block. We changed ISPs, and the site is once again available. We will take the necessary means so that this type of thing cannot happen again; I will speak about it again very soon.
They are being rather optimistic but we will have to wait and see if their "mesures nécessaires" work.
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They are now instituting a "quota" system, apparently to avoid wholesale downloads of their site. Interestingly internet archive does not get any of their books, only the front page, and nothing since December 2005! The limit is a daily one, and you are invited to return tomorrow, for another quota apparently. nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Baker" <phil@thalasson.com> To: <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 8:35 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] ebooks libre et gratuits
In article <200606251622.35322.donovan@abs.net>, D Garcia <donovan@abs.net> writes
On Sunday 25 June 2006 10:25 am, Janet Kegg wrote:
The site is now available again: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/
See the front page of the Web site for what I believe (my French is almost nonexistent) is an explanation of what happened.
The news item roughly translated is:
As you probably noted, the site was inaccessible for over a week; the reason is that our ISP shut down following "A crippling DDOS attack" which they were not able to successfully block. We changed ISPs, and the site is once again available. We will take the necessary means so that this type of thing cannot happen again; I will speak about it again very soon.
They are being rather optimistic but we will have to wait and see if their "mesures nécessaires" work. -- Philip Baker _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d
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