Re: GNOME hosting
- From: jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>
- To: Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>
- Cc: Chris "J." DiBona <chris dibona com>, David Mason <dcm redhat com>, gnome-sysadmin gnome org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME hosting
- Date: 08 Mar 2001 16:38:16 -0500
On 08 Mar 2001 22:46:03 +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
>
> > On 08 Mar 2001 12:45:49 -0800, Chris J. DiBona wrote:
> > > I'm of the opinion that diskspace is cheap, and finding a binary for some
> > > old package that to rebuild would be troubling is a good thing.
> >
> > well the bandwitdh and space on all the mirrors is not as cheap for
> > everyone.
>
> Right about space, wrong about bandwidth. Stuff which nobody downloads
> doesn't cost bandwidth.
but starting up a mirror *does* take a large amount of bandwidth.
jacob
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