John,
thanks for the background. In one very frustrating moment (when I first
found out that e-SIF was off line, and misconstrued as to why) I sent a
private message to HVL,
which he very graciously copied here for everyone to read.
I am aware of the links that you sent, another very useful and well authored
site is
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/olympusom1n2/
-Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] what happened to e-sif?
> At 02:47 2/10/02, Tim wrote:
>
> >I was completely off track. My apologies to HVL.
> >
>
> Tim,
> Not a flame; my first posting was harsh . . .
>
> A little more history on the eSIF and its hosting:
>
> It was available on-line for quite some time. IIRC, it was originally
> located on Xoom.com which offered free web site hosting. Xoom was "bought
> out" by NBCi and their free site hosting was consolidated with
> NBCi's. NBCi later shut down all its free site hosting. Garth Wood
> graciously agreed to host it on his employer's servers at some point after
> NBCi shut down their free site hosting.
>
> The eSIF experienced large bandwidth consumption on Xoom/NBCi also,
> especially after Hnz added the PDF's.
>
> There are some manuals here (rather incomplete, and looking for
contributors):
> http://www.heier.com/olydocs/
>
> A lot of other information is available on the OM Webring; a list of all
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> of the ring's sites is here (a couple of the sites listed have vanished):
> http://F.webring.com/webring?ring=olympusom;list
>
> -- John
>
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