[B5JMS] an update from jms

[b5jms at mail.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu]

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From: iplatizky at yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 04:51:06 +0000 (UTC)
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JMS

There hasn't been a full update in a little while of all things JMS. So
how about it. Pretty please.

IP




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:33:38 +0000 (UTC)
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> >
> >It would be great if all the folks seeing this could pass along the
> >word to the various other websites and newsgroups where Our People are
> >still hanging out, to get the word out...though the funny thing is that
> >when the sign-up page went up for 30 seconds just for a test, 5 people
> >signed in within 30 seconds....
> >
> >jms
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> Your people are coming...
>

And then some...the number of folks imputting their email addresses to
be notified when the site goes on line blew out the system.  I received
a number of emails from folks who got error messages because the
database was full, so if anyone else has gotten that message, they'll
be fixing the system this evening so it can handle a bigger load.

Forty-eight hours in, and we blew out the system...amazing....

jms



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From: Jan <janmschroeder at aol.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:07:02 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <1126913462.187716.238350 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
jmsatb5 at aol.com says...
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>> Your people are coming...
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>And then some...the number of folks imputting their email addresses to
>be notified when the site goes on line blew out the system.  I received
>a number of emails from folks who got error messages because the
>database was full, so if anyone else has gotten that message, they'll
>be fixing the system this evening so it can handle a bigger load.
>
>Forty-eight hours in, and we blew out the system...amazing....
>
>jms

After all the auditoriums filled to standing room only, all the extra signings
and spotlights you've had to squeeze in to accomodate fans, you're still
surprised?

Curiosity's rampant as to how many it took to fill the database...care to share?

Jan


-- 
Here, gathered together in common cause 
We agree to recognize this singular truth 
and this singular rule: 
That we must be kind to one another.
                           G'Kar (J. Michael Straczynski)


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:15:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Jan wrote:

> After all the auditoriums filled to standing room only, all the extra signings
> and spotlights you've had to squeeze in to accomodate fans, you're still
> surprised?
>
> Curiosity's rampant as to how many it took to fill the database...care to share?
>

I don't know the figure...I know that by the end of the first day it
passed the one thousand mark, but where it cracked the mainframe beyond
that I don't yet know.  Also, the main one to use for email addresses
is the babylon5scripts.com address, the b5scripts.com should not be
used for now to help their system handle it all.

The other good thing about getting folks in early is that we've
discussed internally the idea of limiting the period during which these
scripts will be available.  We've talked about doing this for just one
year so that they have value as limited editions so that they can be a
real investment, vs. a two-year window, vs. an open-ended situation.
We're still backing-and-forthing on this one.  We've also discussed
limiting this to a 5,000 or 10,000 print run, but I don't know if
that's practical since some will want the full set and some won't and
we might get some lopsided results. Either way, if we do go for a short
window of one sort or another, it's best to get everybody in sooner
rather than later.

(As noted, we're doing 7 scripts per book, so it starts with the
original draft of "The Gathering" plus 5 episodes, through "Mind
War"...continues cleanly until the end of the series, where there are
only 5 episodic scripts remaining, so we'll be putting in "In the
Beginning" to round it back up to 7 again.)

jms