19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
4:58 p.m.
See previous posts regarding QoS. We are not living
in the 1990s any
more. It does not cost people tons of money in bandwidth, and even
if it does, you have a single line in a config file for either the
server app, or the OS, or your hardware router to control the
traffic.
So nobody's allowed to put up an anonymous FTP server without such
facilities? Or that it's somehow acceptable to gobble all the
resources the remote site will let you without consideration for its
admins, often in direct defiance of their express wishes?
Furrfu.
If you upgrade your FTP server software to, oh, five
years ago or
newer, you also have kiddie/downloader protection. So the cost
argument is a non-argument.
For you, maybe. Bully for you. Here we are again, decreeing that
people who don't happen to be running your idea of suitably recent
software are not worthy of running FTP sites.
Your
definition of courtesy is obscene.
Your definition of generosity is stingy and
parsimonious. Do you complain about your web server bandwidth as
well?
I don't *have* a webserver, and this obscene culture of entitlement
that says it's okay to grab everything the server will let you grab
without consideration for what it may be doing to the remote host or
other users of it is one of the reasons why!
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