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[Savannah-hackers] Re: announce
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Mathieu Roy |
Subject: |
[Savannah-hackers] Re: announce |
Date: |
07 Mar 2003 18:11:21 +0100 |
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"Jaime E. Villate" <address@hidden> said:
> 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.
I done it before.
> 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.
Apparently, the developers know why because -someone said the
following on savannah-hackers- they apparently almost harcoded this.
It even possible that user do not even know that their mldonkey client
retrieve these files on Savannah.
--
Mathieu Roy
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