[DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting

[shaun everiss]

Hmmm
They must not have all the files then.
I must say when I use the archive, I just chip away till I have all 
the new files.
When I origionally did it I probably used everything there was.
However unless there is new files I never hit the archive.
I thought that the planetmirror archives were not complete and due to 
copywrites and things they wouldn't be which is why I never used them.
Can you varify how complete that mirror is.
At 09:00 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:
>Hello,
>Well, I'm sorry it has come to this.  We've been having lots of slowdowns
>recently and it seems that the DECtalk archive is contributing to a large
>bandwidth suckage.  Therefore, I have put in a 8 KB per second bandwidth
>limit on the bluegrasspals.com site.  I'd like to make it only for the
>DECtalk directory but don't know how at the moment.  Planetmirror is now
>downloading new Vocalwriter stuff, so their mirror should be up to date
>soon.
>I hope to be able to turn this limiting off, if those of you responsible for
>all the large downloading would just use the mirror.  That's what it's there
>for, folks!  The URLs are as follows.
>For HTTP: http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/dectalk
>For FTP:  ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/dectalkk
>I'd like to point these out in such a way that all visitors would be highly
>encouraged to use the mirror.  I don't really want to go to a
>username/password system which would force users to actually read a page
>with instructions instead of just download, download, download but I could
>have to.  Maybe the bandwidth cap would encourage people to use the mirror.
>I really, really, really don't want to pull the archive, nor am I going to
>ask for donations.  If anybody has any thoughts, feel free to chime in.
>Jayson.
>
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