Why You Can't Always Tune In

Why, hello there readers! I'm glad you could make it in today. Quite often, a lot of you can't make it to my website when you want to. In case you were wondering why, just read the rest of this essay, posted verbatim from an e-mail I've received all too often in the past few months

Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:27:52 -0800 (PST)
From:civics@geocities.com
To:cu412@freenet.carleton.ca
Subject: Your Data Transfer Status

Dear GeoCities Member,

Your web site, http://geocities.datacellar.net/d-patanella 
seems to have been receiving a large amount of traffic. 
Our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount 
of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes 
per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the 
past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the
bandwidth within this limit.

What can I do?

Keep in mind that large files such as images and multimedia files 
can effect your data transfer greatly. A single web page that 
contains 200,000 bytes of images will only be able to be viewed 
about 20-25 times an hour. By keeping your file sizes and page 
sizes as small as possible, you can maximize the amount of page views 
your site can produce. 

You can also upgrade your site to one of our premium services, 
GeoCities Pro or GeoCities Webmaster. These packages allow for 10 and 
20 gigabytes of data transfer per month, and also give you the option 
of 
purchasing unlimited data transfer so your site will always be 
accessible. 
These packages also enable you to run an ad-free site at your own 
domain name (for example, www.d-patanella.com) and get matching email 
accounts at that domain (like you@d-patanella.com). Upgrading your 
current site is simple -- you don't have to move any files and your
geocities.com/d-patanella address will continue to work.

For more information about our new packages, please visit
	http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info3 

If you'd prefer not to receive this notice in the future,  just go to 
http://geocities.yahoo.com/opt/bwemail to take your name off of the 
notify 
list.  Of course, our servers will continue to monitor your site's data 
usage and turn it off if it exceeds the limits.

Thank you for using Yahoo! GeoCities,

The GeoCities Team
http://geocities.yahoo.com/

1