Re: Copying versus mirroring

David Chia (rsedc@urgento.gse.rmit.EDU.AU)
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 14:32:40 +1000 (EST)

>
> Linkers
>
> Just spotted on the tail end of articles in the SMH site -
>
> "This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or
> mirroring is prohibited."
>
> Interesting that they make the distinction. Perhaps under some
> circumstances that anticpate controlled mirroring?
>
> Tony
>

>From what I heard a recent big name browser will automatically download
the specified pages starting exactly at midnight everyday. This can kill
a popular site if the server resources is limited.

We also experience many cases where for fees operator mirroring our
free access content for their members without our permission.

I am also in the habit of mirroring (not using that big name browser)
certain regularly referred to documents locally for personal use,
automatically checking for new modification once a week/month at random
time of course.

David Chia,
RMIT University.