Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Let's assume that you're right (you're
not, but let's assume that). What
gives you the right to tell me that I *can't* or *shouldn't* offer files
because I'm not prepared to go the same insane length you are? So people
should just not host anything at all?
No, but people should not act surprised when someone wants to mirror the
site.
Downloading
files from the archive is not abuse!! Repeatedly connecting
and locking other people out -- that's abuse. That is not the same
thing. It is entirely possible to mirror a site without bringing it to
its knees. Not all leechers are abusive.
Then answer my question about the people hosting their files on commercial
providers that don't allow or offer QoS limiting. Are they not paying
enough for your taste?
It has nothing to do with what they are paying. I am paying too. It is
a matter of expectations. I choose to put my archive in a location that
1. I can afford monetarily, and 2. I can control. I do this because I
*want* people to actually *download* my files. What a concept.
The only place you can put files without QoS (or crazy amounts of
bandwidth to cover every single person mirroring) are places which cost
less than $6 a month. So there is no cost involved at all (monthly cost
is fixed).
"Thank you for buying me this free beer, but you
are a jerk because you get
mad when I want the whole fricking keg."
Yes, you used that analogy last time and I still don't understand it. A
keg of beer is not a historical archive. Archives are meant to be
accessed. Are you saying that the library gets mad when someone checks
out every single book at once? Oh, right, you can't do that, because
they have CONTROLS IN PLACE TO PREVENT THE SHELVES FROM BEING EMPTY ALL
AT ONCE. Which cost them NOTHING. People *are* allowed -- and even
encouraged -- to systematically goes through the shelves and check out 3
books at a time. And that is what my archives have always done. People
can still mirror, bandwidth is reasonable, my cost is fixed per month,
and everyone is happy.
We are hosting *technology* archives. Use the damn technology.
You are the epitome of irresponsibility.
And you are a curmudgeon. If you don't want people actually downloading
files, don't offer them. Get off of *your* high horse.
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