Re: [Savannah-hackers] announce

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> 
> Without objection, I'll add the following in two hours.
> 
> "The Savannah server is currently exhausted because hundred of mldonkey 
> clients
> try to download differents files as servers list, motd. Despite the
> fact that we now fordib access to this kind of data, it still generate
> a high load, as it still creates tons of http connections.
> 
> Please keep in mind that Savannah is a free software
> <b>development</b> tool, not a part of a p2p network. Offering data to
> be downloaded which is not documentation or software is unacceptable
> on Savannah."

It took me more than two hours to read this, so the announcement is already
posted. I do not object to the announcement but I think that it will not be
very effective; I think it would be better to contact the mldonkey
developers. Somewhere they must be passing some misleading information to the
public, or the public is misunderstanding something; the developers should be
able to find out why the public is trying to retrieve files they should not
request and why so many users think Savannah is an mldonkey server.

Cheers,
Jaime