On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Billy Harvey wrote:
> > >> to encourage people to be
> > >> more responsible with the bandwidth.
>
> Actually, the strong desire to have the latest kernels right away is not all
> bad - it certainly shows the interest.
>
> However, instead of creating more work for the archive maintainers, why not
> use some of the tools we already have, such as email of patches, and
> that-never-quite-took-off program called fsp? Lower the ftp max-count to
> whatever is needed to maintain reasonable response, and add to the no-login
> message a pointer to the web page offering kernel patches by email, and to a
> web page stating how to use fsp. Obviously, fsp needs to be available on the
> server.
>
> Why email is good: because the load gets spread out to many machines.
>
> Why fsp is good: because the load gets spread out over time.
>
> Regards,
> Billy
>
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