I - too - just received Cary's notification of the site and went to check it
out. I can report of no delay problems when connecting to the site.

By the way it seems quite impressive.

Mikkel Scharff
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
School of Conservation
Esplanaden 34
DK-1263 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Tel (+45) 33 74 47 00, Fax (+45) 33 74 47 77

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Namibian Museum Entomology wrote:

> I just received Cary's & Joris's notification of the site. I quickly
> visited it, the first page came up in about 2 minutes (at ca 2 k a second),
> the link to the english version took about 3 minuted, and after waiting for
> 5 minutes with a blank screen waiting for the natural history standards to
> download (still at ca 2 k a second), I called it a day. Definitely not a
> site I will bookmark or recommend.
>
> Eugene Marais
>
> Entomology Centre
> National Museum of Namibia
> P.O. Box 1203, Windhoek, Namibia
> Tel: + 264 61 29 34 305/354
> Fax: + 264 61 22 86 36
> http://www.natmus.cul.na/ento/index.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Joris Komen [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:   Thursday, August 06, 1998 8:38 AM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        Re: Handbook of Standards; Documenting African Collections
>
> Dear ICOM-L(isters),
>
> As one of a considered number of African museum collaborators in
> the AFRICOM Handbook of Standards project, I was stunned into
> complete silence (this is a rare phenomenon:-)) for some minutes
> while trying to browse the newly finished Handbook of Standards
> pages hosted at
>
> http://www.icom.org/afridoc/
>
> as an ICOM internet resource.
>
> I was flabbergasted; with complete abandon (of ICOM page
> conformity), this entry page comes up as a graphic disaster
> zone...no text whatsoever, and a loooong wait for a visual rehash
> of the handbook's front cover (I'm browsing from a 57k modem
> connection to swipnet.se in Stockholm, so I don't have bandwidth
> problems for a change:-)).  Finding my way around the first
> english page (99% graphics), I then land up in a horrendous frame
> environment, with broken links and more slow graphics.
>
> These pages suck!
>
> What I found really disturbing is the fact that I'm listed as an
> author of this Handbook!!  Yesterday was the *first* time I
> received news of this disasterous set of pages, and I am somewhat
> more than a tad annoyed that there was absolutely zero
> consultative process with the *authors* of the Handbook - is this
> becoming a pervasive phenomenon at the ICOM secretariat in
> Paris??
>
> Hugely disappointed!
>
> Joris Komen
>
> National Museum of Namibia