Re: gpo whines

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

Met with Lieberman folks. They are calling so

This is an investigation, you should have attorney

I meet with FBI at 1pm in their office

I have called nytimes

Sent from my.phone.org.

On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com> wrote:

> You didn't hear this from me....
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> Subject: [Info] Follow-up on heavy volumes of access to GPO's Catalog
> of Government Publications (CGP)
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:27:02 -0400
> From: Priebe, Teddy J. <xxxxxxx@gpo.gov>
> To: <info@archive.org>, "Brewster Kahle" <xxxxxxx@archive.org>
> CC: Hall, Laurie B. <xxxxxxx@gpo.gov>, Resler, Linda M.  
> <xxxxxxx@gpo.gov>
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> Good Afternoon Brewster,
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> We have not talked in a while, but I was hoping I could follow-up with
> you or someone from your tech. team and schedule a 10 minute  
> conference
> call regarding access to our Catalog of Government Publications (CGP)
> http://catalog.gpo.gov <http://catalog.gpo.gov/>
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> Background: Our infrastructure team reported to us that hosts under  
> the
> archive.org domain had some high volumes of activity in February that
> nearly brought down our server. Based on continued heavy activity, we
> were hoping to chat with someone from your team about coming up with a
> plan that supports you and ensures continued stability of our
> infrastructure and timely public access.
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> Below are the hits archive.org has logged recently:
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> 156,793 hits in April 2009 (within the first five days)
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> 613,212 March 2009
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> 1,144,079 February 2009
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> I am including Laurie Hall who is the Director of our LTIS business  
> unit
> and Linda Resler who is the senior manager over the CGP within her
> division.
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> Our objective is to work with your team to come up with some  
> acceptable
> alternatives for everyone to ensure continued robust access by all  
> users
> to the CGP.
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> Sincerely,
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> Ted
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> --------------------------
> Ted Priebe
> Director, Library Planning and Development
> United States Government Printing Office
> Washington, DC 20401
> 202-512-2015
> 202-680-3660 mobile
> xxxxxxx@gpo.gov <mailto:tpriebe@gpo.gov>
>
> Have you visited a Federal depository library lately?
>
> http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html
> <http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html>
>
> Easy as FDL!
>
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