>>	Only users from within NORDUnet networks are allowed
 >>	to retrieve these files without limits.  Anyone else
 >>	must compete with rest of the Internet to get them.
 >>
 >>	As an experiment we are from 1994-Jan-15 onwards letting
 >>	people to use a  limited-logins, limited bandwith access
 >>	to the material in the  /pub/pics/ -subtree.
 >>
 >>	Login:  pictures
 >>	Password:  -- the usual thing, your email address
 >>
 >>	That means, it is a SPECIAL form of "anonymous" access
 >>	method.  "anonymous" user's from outside the NORDUnet
 >>	will not be able to reach those files, but "pictures"-
 >>	users will -- if they can get thru the limited logins
 >>	hurdle of at most 25 users.
 >>
 >>	(For the "WWW-impaired" -- who can't/won't use FTP, open
 >>      URL:   ftp://pictures@ftp.funet.fi/pub/pics/ ...
 >>      Your interface should query a "password" for you, and it
 >>	 is of form:   username@hostname -- but it must be YOUR
 >>      email address!)


	NORDUnet users are from those systems which can identify
	their IP address to belong to one of top-level domains:
		DK, FI, IS, NO, SE
	and also  EE, LV, LT, SU  whose traffic goes from here
	to them without traversing NORDUnet at first.
	Rest of the the Internet is behind NORDUnet-USA, and/or
	NORDUnet-Amsterdam lines, and those users have limits.

	If the IP-address reverse mapping fails, you are considered
	to be in "IP-rev. failure, and other database bugs" -class,
	which has been created to give motivation for you to inform
	your network providers/managers that they have not done
	everything they are supposed to do. (That is the 'two users
	at the most' -class.)


This is mostly due to a sort of political attention from our financing
sources.  It is becoming more and more difficult to  explain to  them,
why they  should push  more and more  millions of ECU into  increasing
the bandwidth of our international lines.


At present we are pushing  6.5 GB / 24h into the network,  and of that
4.7 GB goes over our  international lines.  This means on AVERAGE OVER
24h that there is 490 kbps around the clock on  that line.  In reality
the load is higest around 12-24 GMT (USA is awake), and there it peaks
into 80+% of total line  capacity of our international line.  When our
financers asked for largest source of load, we found out that in April
of 1993, 50% of all the traffic  on that line  was pictures.  They did
not like it, and it had to be shunted..    Back then the total traffic
was "only" 3.2 GB/24h.

If you want to get pictures, you have some choises:
	- go to some place which has a small collection, and thus has
	  not yet had problems with line capacity..
	- go to some larger place w/o line capacity limits
	- create a mirror of this site, and learn about line problems..
	  (If you do this, you will get special support accounts, etc.
	   in this system.  Contact -> managers alpha tango nic.funet.fi  for more
	   information, once you have a machine where to do it, and
	   commitment to have it running for at least a year.. )
	- use the "pictures" account instead of "anonymous".


If you are willing to provide a copy of these files (even only to a part
of them) to your local/regional users,  we can arrange for non-anonymous
account for you.  Contact -> managers@nic.funet.fi  for more information.


Places that have some selected subsets of our pictures (and usually
some others) are at least:

	ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/media/visual/collections/
	ftp://ftp.univ-rennes1.fr/pub/Images/
	ftp://microwave1.ph.msstate.edu/pub/racing/nic/

	Danann.hea.ie: -- Pictures accessible from Ireland only.
	
	ftp://ftp.delphi.com/ in the US with some of the directories under
	/pub/images


We would like to add more sites into this list, if we hear of any.

931027/managers nic.funet.fi
931205,940213,950207,951220,961202