From goya@racine.vjf.cnrs.fr Thu Nov 28 23:32:28 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.168]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with SMTP id gAT7WSrw014610 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:32:28 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 28 23:32:27 2002 -0800 Received: from smtp.noos.fr (zola.noos.net [212.198.2.76]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with ESMTP id gAT7VU8J023105 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:32:27 -0800 Received: (qmail 7588342 invoked by uid 0); 29 Nov 2002 07:31:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?195.132.105.213?) ([195.132.105.213]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.76 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2002 07:31:28 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20021128151910.0087bc50@mail.uba.uva.nl> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20021128093215.00a016f0@pop.staff.uni-marburg.de > <3DE57067.76CA1819@attbi.com> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:30:55 +0200 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Michael Chase Subject: Re: Perseus access Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >As a great Perseus fan, may I ask : Is it just me, or are the >maintenance-windows becoming bigger lately (in any case, longer than the >sixty minutes per day which seems still the norm) ? > >Also, the Oxford site has been down for maintenance for at least ten days >now. And, on the 19th, the unthinkable actually occurred : all three sites, >including the Berlin mirror, were offline at the same time -- just when I >was teaching a class (on information skills, for freshman archaeology >students) which required the students to use Perseus in combination with >printed materials. I'm curious : Are these things uncoordinated ? M.C.: This seems to have been the case for quite a while now ; both the Oxford and the Berlin mirror sites have been down for months, and the Tufts site is offline for at least one hour per day, between 5-6 A.M. Eastern time, which is late morning here in Western Europe ; in fact it's often considerably longer than that. And when it *is* on line, the site is much slower due to overloading. I don't want to complain too much, but Perseus is such a terrific site and an invaluable resource that I miss it when it's not available. -- Michael Chase (goya@vjf.cnrs.fr) CNRS UPR 76/l'Ann=E9e Philologique Villejuif-Paris, France .