That's odd--I had no trouble with it this morning (9:00 a.m. East Coast
time in the U.S.).  I did think it was a bit heavy on graphics, however,
for what is essentially meant to be a utilitarian site.

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