ftp archives disappearing?

On 3/18/07, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote: I agree with Jim, why is someone uploading big sized files for people to download when at the same time they don't expect to spend lots of monthly bandwidth? That just doesn't make sense...any file archive and just file hosting in general is going to involve investing alot of monthly bandwidth to keep th site going and if someone isn't willing to invest the necessary funds then they shouldn't be hosting the files at all really...putting roadblocks in the way of users interested in the archive just defeats the purpose of having the files up in the first place, to help keep them around and give them to people who need and/or want them...people should be able to get them piece by piece if they want and people should be able to take everything if they want because either way is going to help ensure that the files stay around and don't just disappear and if people want to archive everything then that means that the archive is of value and should be preserved and all the roadblocks do is prevent the archive from being preserved instead causing it to be in a state where at any time it can just go *poof!*...people should either be willing to invest some good money in monthly bandwidth for their archive and not add in stupid roadblocks or they should not publicize their archive at all and instead go my route of uploading the files to people who request it for their archives IMO