standpoint, please be sure (a) you really need to do it; (b) you have correct settings.
A friend of mine runs a (non-dial) scholarly site which must be fairly similar to many individual sundial sites, with a few hundred pages on various not always interlocking topics, on his Macintosh (OS X) at the university. He has no problem of course with serving the pages, and the university, as universities usually do, allows unlimited bandwidth: thank goodness. He regularly watches people come to the site via some link about Pliny or Sir Thomas Browne, and a site-capturing program scoop up not only Pliny and related items, but also the Life of Pompey the Little (a charming 18c poem about a dog), endless chapters of the autobiography of the Grande Mademoiselle (completely unrelated to the antiquarian items onsite, and in French), etc. The worst of these fools then move on to follow a link offsite to another page and downloads everything there. He's frequently watched their settings take them to my site (about 4000 pages) where they do the same thing.
A total waste of resources; equal waste from the standpoint of the "user" -- I can hardly call them that -- who surely throws away all this stuff that clogs up their computer. Needless to say we're searching for some way to stop these downloads, and so are lots of other server operators; when we find it, we'll block all these programs.
If you have cable you have no excuse for doing this, plus, as pointed out, websites work best in their Web context, not truncated on a hard disk. If for some reason you must do this, please learn how to set your settings.
-- Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html -
