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>Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:06:07 -0300 >From: crant@ns.sympatico.ca (B. Crant) >To: ip-help@chebucto.ns.ca >Subject: Re: Infomation Provider > >Hi; > >I am writing to ask what are your requirements to become and information >provider, we now have that status with InfoNET at Memorial University in >St. John's, NF, but are looking for other servers to expand, since we do >develop a large amount of Information. I think we used about 25 meg. at >InfoNET and then Wordplay a book store in St. John's gave us 50, which >we also filled. This information consist of Historical and Genealogical >Data related to Newfoundland, including the 1921 Census, 1864-65 and >1871 Directories of Newfoundland and much more. We are now looking to >complete the 1898 and start on the 1904 Directory of Newfoundland, which >requires about 10 meg of disk space. We feel that spreading the >information on various servers is the proper thing to do since 75% of >the traffic at InfoNET comes from the data we supplied and that adding >more would over burden them and Wordplay is really not that reliable. >I note that you say Atlantic Canada, rather than Maritime Canada, so >that's why we ask you, since Newfoundland is part of Atlantic Canada. >Now the bottom line for us is we really never formed any legal formation >in this group of three people that are involved as one myself lives in >Nova Scotia, another in Florida and the other in Alberta. This makes it >to difficult as volunteers, we simply acquire the info, then ask the >hundreds of Volunteers to type it and they pay for copies and postage >and we do the rest as far as getting it on the internet, sort of loose >knit, so we couldn't actually sign any papers that required a legal >affiliation, although we are considering applying for registration as a >non-profit organization with the NS or NF government. >The bottom line is would we "Newfoundland's Grand Banks" qualify as >Information Providers within your organization and if so what route >should we take as we don't have any funding. > >Thanks in Advance! >-- >Bill Crant, PO Box 86, 24 Lorna Crt., Elmsdale, NS B0N 1M0 >Phone (902) 883-8634 >Founder - Newfoundland's Grand Banks >http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/project21/ >or http://www.wordplay.com/ngb/ > ________________________________________________________________ Mark Rushton, Editor, Community Support & Development, Chebucto Community Network Mark@chebucto.ns.ca or via WWW: http://chebucto.ns.ca/~Mark/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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