[tech] Re: Excessive Bandwidth Use

[Grahame Bowland]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:57 am, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 01:50, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
> > I am thinking of Joining UCC and was wondering if downloading the latest
> > Debian ISOs and burning them was considered as excess bandwidth use?
>
> No, given that we charge for downloads from outside of PARNET (or
> something like that - I'm kind of out of the loop). On the other hand
> the Debian ISOs (well, i386 anyway) are I believe available in our free
> traffic area so thats not likely to be excessive at all. The "no
> excessive traffic" provision is because we don't want people hosting
> sites that will get a lot of traffic on our servers - we pay for the
> traffic and we have no way of billing people for web pages served (and
> really, we don't want to).

Especially given that they can be grabbed at 
ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/debian-cd :-)

- -- 
Grahame Bowland  / "If computers get too powerful, we can organise them
                / into a committee -- that will do them in" - Bradley
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE9QbMuN7eIygKWKbARAvEKAJ9x9c0kW9JGMT7l2tw6xLD0tCdcrgCfeOa8
E8UtYp3F7eV8sP7T3G4GlVU=
=xAqN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----