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luke
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Message 17 of 44

06 March 2013 at 10:50am | IP Logged

Chung wrote:

htdavidht wrote:

I found this line in another website:

"12/19/2012 Jim
This site is down. An FSI employee (that is, a State Dept employee) advises that their sub-department objected to the use of "fsi" in the site name.

That's somewhat funny logic since we have Plurality Language running foreignserviceinstitute.com (yes, it's not .gov, but using the State Department's seal and FSI coat of arms in addition to the name in the URL seems more than a little suggestive, but still it somehow doesn't bother an employee at FSI enough to complain about a a private company that's reselling courses and keeping the proceeds for itself. Hmmmmm....)

Maybe the communication came in the form of an email from @foreignserviceinstitute.COM.
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06 March 2013 at 4:11pm | IP Logged

Also recall that the site had a very clear disclaimer, in bold letters, prominently displayed on the homepage to the effect that the site had no connection to the US Government. There was clearly no intention of deceiving anyone, so the idea of anyone at the State Department having serious genuine objections strikes me as unlikely.
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10 March 2013 at 3:59pm | IP Logged

Hi,

the reconstruction of the website is well advanced.

About the torrent file I wrote before: please, keep seeding after finishing downloading ...

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Message 20 of 44

11 March 2013 at 9:52pm | IP Logged

I might have missed this if it had been discussed already..but are there any plans to have the audio for the PDF files,
specifically Czech? I am aware that it is not yet complete, but I thought I'd fulfill my curiosity by asking :)
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Message 21 of 44

14 March 2013 at 9:32am | IP Logged

hi,

I'm uploading the new FSI website on my server. My upload link is very slow, so I have to decrease the uploading speed of the torrent archive.

Sorry.

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14 March 2013 at 3:43pm | IP Logged

Ericounet wrote:

hi,

I'm uploading the new FSI website on my server. My upload link is very slow, so I have to decrease the uploading speed of the torrent archive.

Sorry.

Awesome! Thanks for continuing to work on restoring the FSI site!
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Message 23 of 44

14 March 2013 at 8:00pm | IP Logged

Another site is hosting the archive here:
http://fsi.antibozo.net/
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Message 24 of 44

14 March 2013 at 10:04pm | IP Logged

Hi,

it's good to have alternatives , just in case ...

Eric

Update: I hope to be able to put the website online on Monday evening :)

Edited by Ericounet on 15 March 2013 at 6:17pm

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