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The FAQ (and associated Glossary)

I have today uploaded the latest update to the FAQ & Glossary, and this
message is to announce that this will the last time I shall do so.

I can no longer maintain the FAQ to the standard I would wish for
reasons that I don't want to enlarge upon here. I will keep the various
pages hosted on my site for as long as I maintain the ntl account, but
will not perform any more updates, amendments etc.

In the life-time of this newsgroup (and near 10-year history of the
FAQ), the world of the Internet has changed out of all recognition. In
1996, UK-based web sites that held information, advice etc., on matters
of interest to the 'amateur' weather community were few and far between.

Now, we have many and varied sites with useful advice, and of course
Wikipedia is also available and popular. Also the advent of powerful
search engines has revolutionised the WWW, which applications both find
data very efficiently, and some (e.g. Google) store web pages for
all-time (or at least as long as we can foresee).

If anyone should wish to take over this job, then of course please do so
with my blessing: you can either lift the relevant pages from my site,
or I can burn a CD with the files for manipulation.

Thank you for all your help and support over the past years.

Martin.


--
FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm
and
http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/metindex.htm

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Martin Rowley wrote:
The FAQ (and associated Glossary)

I have today uploaded the latest update to the FAQ & Glossary, and this
message is to announce that this will the last time I shall do so.

I can no longer maintain the FAQ to the standard I would wish for
reasons that I don't want to enlarge upon here. I will keep the various
pages hosted on my site for as long as I maintain the ntl account, but
will not perform any more updates, amendments etc.

In the life-time of this newsgroup (and near 10-year history of the
FAQ), the world of the Internet has changed out of all recognition. In
1996, UK-based web sites that held information, advice etc., on matters
of interest to the 'amateur' weather community were few and far between.

I am sorry to lose your input there and grateful for the feature. I
hope whatever the reason is, that everything will improve. I hope for
the best for you and yours.

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Snipped a bit.

There are certain people on this newsgroup whose contributions are immense.
I won't name them now, if only for fear of missing someone out
inadvertently, but you know who you are and more importantly, so do we and
we reaaly value your efforts.

Martin, I appreciate your comments and thank-you for the 10 years (so
far!!!) of the FAQ. I really hope someone can take it on, as it has been
invaluable for many and has always been the first point of reference when a
question has been raised and is quite unique in the information available.
I am proud to actually have my name mentioned in it, no matter that it's for
something quite trivial, so I have a vested interest in its continuation,
though unfortunately not the time or dedication that others have
demonstrated to this ng.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

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In article ,
Martin Rowley m
writes:
The FAQ (and associated Glossary)

I have today uploaded the latest update to the FAQ & Glossary, and this
message is to announce that this will the last time I shall do so.
snip

That's sad news.

Thank you for all your help and support over the past years.

The thanks should be all yours, for all the time, skill and effort that
you have put into the FAQ.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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Martin Rowley wrote:

The FAQ (and associated Glossary)

I have today uploaded the latest update to the FAQ & Glossary, and this
message is to announce that this will the last time I shall do so.

I can no longer maintain the FAQ to the standard I would wish for
reasons that I don't want to enlarge upon here. I will keep the various
pages hosted on my site for as long as I maintain the ntl account, but
will not perform any more updates, amendments etc.


I am sorry to hear that Martin. I've found it a very useful reference.

All the best

Graham
Penzance

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Martin

I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone involved with the ng when I sincerely
thank you for making such a valuable resource available. Pity the TV
recognition took so long!

Wishing you every health and happiness in 2007 and beyond.

Maurice Smith

Sandwick, Shetland


On 26/12/06 2:33 pm, in article ,
"Martin Rowley" m wrote:

The FAQ (and associated Glossary)

I have today uploaded the latest update to the FAQ & Glossary, and this
message is to announce that this will the last time I shall do so.

I can no longer maintain the FAQ to the standard I would wish for
reasons that I don't want to enlarge upon here. I will keep the various
pages hosted on my site for as long as I maintain the ntl account, but
will not perform any more updates, amendments etc.

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Martin Rowley m wrote:

Thank you for all your help and support over the past years.

Martin.


Martin

What size is the site?

--
Gareth Slee
http://www.meroffice.com

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"Gareth Slee" wrote in message
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What size is the site?

--

.... very roughly 8 Mb. I say 'very roughly' because the way it's been
built up over the years means that there are a lot of files
inter-locking with my own personal web data, and that's something I
would need to disentangle if someone were to host / maintain the site
independently.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

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Martin Rowley wrote:

... very roughly 8 Mb. I say 'very roughly' because the way it's been
built up over the years means that there are a lot of files
inter-locking with my own personal web data, and that's something I
would need to disentangle if someone were to host / maintain the site
independently.

I have virtually unlimited web space and bandwidth, and would be happy
to take over hosting and maintaining the FAQ. I'd want to put my own
'look and feel' on it, without losing accessibility - not that there's
anything wrong with the current design - but I'd be relying on the
experts in the newsgroup as far as the content is concerned.

Of course, if Gareth is about to volunteer, I'm happy for him to do it.
--
Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL
http://sanday.org.uk/weather

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Steve Loft wrote:

Of course, if Gareth is about to volunteer, I'm happy for him to do it.


I was considering volunteering, but I've so much on at the moment that
I'd be glad to let you have a bash :-)

--
Gareth Slee
http://www.meroffice.com

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"Steve Loft" wrote in message
m...
Martin Rowley wrote:

... very roughly 8 Mb. I say 'very roughly' because the way it's been
built up over the years means that there are a lot of files
inter-locking with my own personal web data, and that's something I
would need to disentangle if someone were to host / maintain the site
independently.

I have virtually unlimited web space and bandwidth, and would be happy
to take over hosting and maintaining the FAQ. I'd want to put my own
'look and feel' on it, without losing accessibility - not that there's
anything wrong with the current design - but I'd be relying on the
experts in the newsgroup as far as the content is concerned.


.... I'll contact you via email sometime over the weekend to discuss
arrangements.

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

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Steve Loft wrote:

I have virtually unlimited web space and bandwidth, and would be happy
to take over hosting and maintaining the FAQ.

How does bandwidth work?

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Weatherlawyer wrote:
Steve Loft wrote:
I have virtually unlimited web space and bandwidth, and would be happy
to take over hosting and maintaining the FAQ.

How does bandwidth work?


Not sure what you mean. Strictly speaking I used the term incorrectly;
what I'm referring to is the amount of data transfer allowed per month.
Currently I'm allowed 2.25 Terabytes per month, but this figure
automatically increases by 16 Gigabytes every week.
--
Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL
http://sanday.org.uk/weather

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On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:59:59 GMT, Steve Loft
wrote:

Weatherlawyer wrote:
Steve Loft wrote:
I have virtually unlimited web space and bandwidth, and would be happy
to take over hosting and maintaining the FAQ.

How does bandwidth work?


Not sure what you mean. Strictly speaking I used the term incorrectly;
what I'm referring to is the amount of data transfer allowed per month.
Currently I'm allowed 2.25 Terabytes per month, but this figure
automatically increases by 16 Gigabytes every week.

2.25TB/month = 75GB/day = 3.125GB/hour =
8.6MB/second.

mmmmmmmm

--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/

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"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
:

The FAQ (and associated Glossary)

I have today uploaded the latest update to the FAQ & Glossary, and this
message is to announce that this will the last time I shall do so.

I'm sorry your circumstances no longer allow you to maintain the FAQ, as
it's an outstanding resource and I think you've done a wonderful job in
keeping it up for so many years. Like David Mitchell (elsewhere in this
thread) I have a slight vested interest in that my name is in it in a very
minor way, so I'm glad to see (also elsewhere in this thread) that other
people seem able and willing to take on the job.

Thank you for an excellent reference, and for all your hard work.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

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Steve Loft wrote:
Weatherlawyer wrote:
Steve Loft wrote:
to take over hosting and maintaining the FAQ.

How does bandwidth work?



I'm happy to still host the backup, at least for the next year or so,
being on blueyonder I'm allowed to run servers and have virtually
unlimited webspace as a result and, for the kind of files the existing
FAQ are, unlimited network capacity. And no usage caps whatsoever.
After a year I'll have to pass it on as neither me or my family will be
in the country for extended periods of time.

Les
--
Les Crossan,
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk