[NCLUG] Follow up on give-away.

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> Tim Chambers wrote:
>>> there's http://www.freecycle.org/
>>>
>>> I've been a member of my local freecycle group for about a month.
>>
>> About a month? Based on my checking out the site that's about enough
>> time for their server to feed you 1 or 2 pages. I think it's running
>> on a Commodore-64 via a 300 baud modem.
>
> Today is Earth Day and so freecycle is probably getting hammered.  I
> am sure it is a much higher rate than is typical for them.  I don't
> recall them being this slow on a normal day.

Yeah, I thought of that right after I posted that, makes sense.

I guess this is actually a good thing that they are so busy, and you  
can't expect an outfit to budget equipment and bandwidth for a once-a- 
year traffic surge.

beww