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Thread #153841   Message #3607190
Posted By: JohnInKansas
04-Mar-14 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bad design
Subject: RE: BS: Bad design
A recent visit to the Fed website to check on some NHTSA regulations on trucking found only an "index page" separately linking each individual paragraph of the statute section in question.

I quit counting before getting a complete total, but getting the whole statute section would have required opening and copying/saving more than 900 separate links, one at a time.

As an added insult, each save used the identically same default filename, so you would have to "Save As" and "Rename" each of the paragraphs, in order to avoid overwriting the previous with the latest.

(There are utilities that claim to let you save "all linked" but their performance, in my experience, varies from site to site, so it would take almost as long to find which special app could be used on that site as to go ahead and follow the links.)

The whole section in which I was interested might have been 300 pages (but probably was fewer) and a single pdf might have been a little over 280 MB (a rough guesstimate), but I wouldn't consider those to be "large" downloads.

"Government transparency" in action. (??)

John