[Coco] maltedmedia ftp request

[Juan Castro]

I favor that. In fact, I pledge to seed if the material in question is
turned into a torrent.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM, David Roper <ebonhand09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps packaging it up into "chunks" and releasing via torrent?
>
> e.g. "Books", "Disks/Games", "OS9", etc.
>
> - David
>
> On 21 June 2012 23:53, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> > At 09:35 AM 6/21/2012, you wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:29 PM,  <rvanscherpe at penwin.net> wrote:
> >> > I believe that the Rainbow directory is taking up the majority of this
> >> > space.
> >> > Have you considered removing the "big" versions for now and just
> leaving
> >> > the smaller files with maybe a text file saying that larger ones are
> >> > available
> >> > on DVD?
> >>
> >> Archive.org hosts a complete collection of Rainbow scans as well, so
> >> we can relieve some of the bandwidth issues by grabbing these from
> >> there instead. Thanks to  Derek for recently sharing the link:
> >> http://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine.
> >
> >
> > I certainly appreciate all these positive suggestions.
> >
> > One of the reasons my CoCo storage 'dump' has a bandwidth problem is that
> > there are 80+GB of documents available in one place and folks don't have
> to
> > search here & there. And I have the space for more. I'm interested in
> > convenience for people interested in CoCo materials.
> >
> > The solution I'm asking for is how to reduce demand for the entire
> archive
> > AT ONCE. Since throttling or IP address connection limits would interfere
> > with my (paying) clients' use of the rest of the FTP site, I'd be
> reluctant
> > to do that.
> >
> > So if folks on this list will go easy on the mass downloads, that will
> help.
> > I've put in a robots.txt file which should block respectful search bots.
> >
> > That just leaves the anonymous bandwidth suckers, such as an anonymous
> user
> > in Uruguay who downloaded the entire 81GB on Tuesday, or "
> psergm at gmail.com"
> > who did the same. Blocking their IPs after the fact is useless, and
> > constantly monitoring usage would be more work for me.
> >
> > I can, however, password-protect the site and make the username/password
> > available as part of this list's info page. Or something else that will
> not
> > create more work and keep the balance tipped below my monthly 500GB cap.
> > Those are the kinds of suggestions that will balance keeping all the
> content
> > and balancing the use.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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