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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Total offline time was 6 hours, 14 minutes.
>
> Like I said before, I want my money back!
>
> Lessee.. take the total time I hope this site is up and in existance,
> divide by the outage, and multiply by my donation to get the amount I
> want back..
<smile>
It's not midnight yet, so I still have my sense of humor for the day, and
on top of that, I know that Larry's joking because he told me yesterday. :-)
But just for anyone following along casually, a LUGNET membership buys
membership in LUGNET, which basically just means a label that you can apply
to yourself and certain other privileges (which will increase over time) on
the server. A membership does not buy time on the server or the right to
connect to it (those are "free like air") and does not imply any sort of
compensation for downtime, outages, inability to connect, etc. (The Terms
of Use even contain explicit disclaimers about this sort of thing.)
Anyway, so much for that. :-)
Now, Mathgeektodd steps in.
> (100 years)/6 hours * (hmm... havne't decided on the final donation yet)
> == Some really small number.
Hey, no, you forgot the 14 minutes. 6 hours + 14 minutes. :-)
Lessee, if your membership lasts 100 years, and you've so far sent $123.50
toward your membership, then that's 365.25 days/year * 100 years * 86400
seconds/day = 3155760000 seconds. Downtime was approximately 6:14, which is
22440 seconds. So 22400/3155760000 = .000007098131670342, and multiplied by
$123.50, that's $.0008766192612873. I guess you're looking for a refund
check of ~9 1/100's of a cent, then? :-) On the other hand, maybe it's not
linear. Maybe the membership is worth 10 times as much to you per unit of
time 10 years from now as it is today, which would value it at even less now.
:)
--Todd
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| (...) Right. So who's got a 1 lire note Todd can use? (that's actually a little less... consulting: (URL) turns out to be about 17 lira, or 123 Vietnamese Dong, or (here's big money!) 1726 !! Angolan New Kwanzaas (pity the OLD kwanzaa...) Those were (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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| (...) Todd, can you tell me how much notice Pair gave you for the outtage and if you know if they sent word out to all their customers? I was always pleased with Pair when I used them and I see a fairly major website claiming that Pair just "up and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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| (...) Like I said before, I want my money back! Lessee.. take the total time I hope this site is up and in existance, divide by the outage, and multiply by my donation to get the amount I want back.. (100 years)/6 hours * (hmm... havne't decided on (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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