[plug] iinet dumping their ftp archive

[Daniel Pearson]

But not really that many iiNet accounts have download limits.. :)

Cheers,
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Quintin Lette" <quintin at arach.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] iinet dumping their ftp archive


> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:29 pm, bob wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:36 pm, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:19, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > > I never really liked using their debian mirror anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Oh well.
> > >
> > > Ironically, their debian mirror is one of the few bits they're keeping
> > > and promising to keep maintained and up to date...
> >
> > From iiNets Marh 2003 newsletter
> > - Debian.  This is for the more technical customers, who use the Linux
> >   operating system.  Only the i386 archive will be maintained.
> >
> > Only i386? Thats not a Debian mirror as far as I'm concerned (and maybe
> > explains why Sarge is broken)
>
> So now they are going to get even more traffic when people will download
it
> anyway... directly! I thought the whole idea of mirroring was so that it
> SAVED them money by not having the same stuff downloaded over and over.
>
> what might be more economical (although not something that would be highly
> popular with WAIX people) is taking the mirror off WAIX and having it
local
> only, this would probably be even more annoying to most people (including
> myself being on arach.net), and possibly against the WAIX agreement, but
it
> would provide a better service to their customers.
>
> Then comes the nasty crunch.. they are *possibly* doing this so that more
> people do download the stuff directly and therefore going over their
download
> limits and spending more money, although that doesn't sound right either
> except that it slows down 1/2 the people to 64k and allows for more people
on
> their limited bandwith.
>
> Summary: a pain in the butt for anyone not using debian or Redhat. :(
> now to convince Tucows to mirror SuSE :))
>
> My 2 c
>
> Quintin