StateoftheNet.PDF

State of the Net eSUBMIT, submitters survive ? Trying again later was a good idea one day in par- the rocky road ticular. Naturally, the troublesome day was Friday the 13th. Heavy use combined with a small glitch in the “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” programming combined to produce a logjam that — Friedrich Nietzsche essentially locked up the eSUBMIT server. Reports of five-hour downloads were common that day. Hanging Trial by fire is, to say the least, unpleasant. And so it a rabbit’s foot and a horseshoe over the server, moving has been with eSUBMIT. it out from beneath a ladder, and a bit of tinkering Those of you who are still reading can consider with the code cleared up the problems. yourselves survivors of eSUBMIT, the online application ? Getting around firewalls was a major problem. used to accept abstract submissions for the 1998 Interna- Many authors got all the way through eSUBMIT just tional Exhibition and 68th Annual Meeting in New to find they could not send their paper through a cor- Orleans. However, a lot of people just got a sick feeling porate firewall, and they resorted to the in their stomachs at the thought of seeing, reading, or FTP option. While firewalls are gener- dealing with eSUBMIT ally fine and good, they caused major problems in again. this instance. The results on ?