Re: GNOME hosting

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

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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