[Savannah-hackers] Re: announce

[Mathieu Roy]

"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.



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Mathieu Roy
 
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