[Coco] maltedmedia ftp request

[Luis Fernández]

I am making a separate torrent for issues


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Making 
CoCoDskUtilPack V 1.0.10.zip, Scan magazines and organize maltedmedia
http://cococoding.com/cocodskutil/ Thank Aaron Wolfe
My personal blog: http://www.luis45ccs.blogspot.com, 
Excuse my English, I use google translator, my language is Spanish, I'm Spanish but I live in Venezuela
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> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:53:09 -0400
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> From: dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] maltedmedia ftp request
> 
> 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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