Hello David, I am looking forward to the new scan viewing system. One question, which has probably already been discussed and missed by me; why isn't the scan selection process a "one page" search facility rather than this "Russian Doll" system? Cheers Steve Gaunt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mayall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: Image servers > I'm pleased to announce that work on the new dedicated image servers appears > to be complete. > > As they are ready early, I'd like to grasp the opportunity for some additional > testing, and I'd like to ask Syndicate co-ordinators to assist with that. > > First and foremost, we need to ensure that transcriber scan downloads work > robustly from the new address at http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/ The current > password arrangements apply. > > Secondly, we need to test a new facility which we will be anouncing next week, > allowing the general public access to our scans. > > This access will be via a different route, and will not use passwords. It is > however designed to be slower than the transcriber's route. > > To try it out, please go to http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl > > Any feedback to me please. I may not acknowledge it, but I will read it all. > > Obviously, the public access facility is going to generate a good deal of > interest in the genealogical world (and is probably going to upset 1837online > big time), so it would be much appreciated if co-ordinators would treat the > information above about the new facility as embargoed until 12:00 Monday, at > which time an official announcement will be made to all the FreeBMD lists, and > to appropriate wider reading lists and groups. Once that announcement has gone > out, it may be freely copied elsewhere. > > -- > Dave Mayall > > ---------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:02:36 +0200, you wrote: >Hello David, >I am looking forward to the new scan viewing system. One question, which has >probably already been discussed and missed by me; why isn't the scan >selection process a "one page" search facility rather than this "Russian >Doll" system? 1) Providing scans to the general public is quite expensive in bandwidth terms, we need to make sure that we expose them to enough adverts to pay for it. 2) We don't have all the scans, so we need to restrict people's selections. -- Dave Mayall