Date:         Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:40:04 -0400
Reply-To:     "Michael L. Davis" <mldavis@BASSETTCONSULTING.COM>
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From:         "Michael L. Davis" <mldavis@BASSETTCONSULTING.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS OnlineDoc
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Hello Wei, Walter, and Other SAS-L Friends,

It appears that SAS wants you to visit their web site for OnlineDoc as a
last resort.  If everyone visited the SAS web site to read OnlineDoc, SAS
would have to up their server capacity.  If the OnlineDoc users frequently
employed the search facility, that would increase the server demand even
more.

As Walter said in his post, it is perfectly acceptable to make the
OnlineDoc available to a site's SAS uses via intranet or installation on
individual hard drives.  Doing this lessens the demands on the SAS web
site, which helps keep it available.

- Michael "Mad Doggy" Davis

At 12:14 PM 10/19/2001 -0500, Walter Scott <wscott@MAIL.STATE.TN.US> wrote:
>   Wei Cheng,
>      My understanding is that the OnlineDoc can be made available to
> any/all SAS users at your 'site'; that is, people using SAS on your
> site-license(s).  At my site we have made them available on our intranet
> (after I had discussed the issue sith SI) where all of our SAS users,
> whether PC or mainframe, can access them.  (For PC-SAS users I will
> install the OnlineDoc on their hard drive if they wish.)  SI indicated to
> me that I should not make the docs available to the internet (that is,
> the 'whole world').
>
>Walter
>
> >>> wei cheng <cheng_wei@HOTMAIL.COM> 11:31:33 19-Oct-01 >>>
>Hi,
>
>I just noticed that when I read the SAS OnlineDoc from SI, they put an
>"Important Infomation" there, Says: "...we ask that you not post this URL to
>any newsgroups or discussion groups or share with other SAS sites that can
>access the documentation from their intranet. ". I've collected several SAS
>OnlineDoc web sites under the "SAS Manual" category on my web site. Do you
>think it will be affected by this "Information"? I'm not quite understand
>this sentence and any legal issues behind. Can anyone share your
>understanding?
>
>TIA,
>
>
>Wei Cheng
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