Re: How to reconstitute Computist posts sidebar?

[Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org>]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:21:34 GMT, Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>
wrote:

>In article <qljba1dpd5jfa4kb4b214bamlhkq1qr1m8@4ax.com>,
> Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:51:53 -0700, "Michael J. Mahon"
>> <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >Great, Mike.
>> >
>> >Posting files for user pull rather than newsgroup push seems like the
>> >modern way to go.
>> >
>> >-michael
>> >
>> >8-voice music synthesizer using NadaNet networking!
>> >Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
>> 
>> I agree.  I won't be making any more posts to the binaries group
>> unless someone specifically requests it.  Everything will be available
>> from my site, on a CD by mail, or on one more other sites that also
>> make my scans available.
>
>I don't know if I would agree with that...it would've taken me about 1/2 
>hour to download the ISO from the newsgroups, but it took me well over 5 
>hours to download it from your website.  Don't know exactly how long as 
>I started it sometime after 6PM and went to bed at 11:30 before it was 
>finished.
>
>Pulling from a website is good if you can afford to have the bandwidth 
>available.  But that costs money and when your doing something great, 
>like giving this away for free, that's not a viable option.
>
>Greg B.

My site's been slammed, so it doesn't surprise me it took that long.
I'd be willing to bet that if you were to try it again in a week or
two, it would take less than half that.  And, if you don't want to
deal with my site, feel free to drop me an email and I'll send a CD
your way.  

You got off light, too - looking through my logs, several people have
had to wait more that 12 hours.  There are a couple of leeches on
right now, too who are sucking the entire site down using multiple
connections, a real bandwidth killer.

And it will also be available on some of the other sites in the next
few days.

Anyway, I hope the wait was worth it.  :-)

- Mike
maginnis@tarnover.org