Re: project status

first of all most NNTP servers don't let you download binarys and
cover only a small ammount of groups. and second of all if the rsyncs
were consolidated it would require a minimum ammount of effort to
maintain them, and any problems could be fixed fairly easily. I mean,
are you saying that if you got a flood of orders you would just throw
out the money?


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:37:45 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Miller wrote:
> > ok guys you misunderstood me again :P. The additional money you could
> > earn could be used to improve the infustructure. In theory if the shop
> > made enough money, you could do things like setup a news server for
> > gentoo users, or buy a very fast(t3-oc3) line dedicated for portage.
> > Just because you earn more money, doesnt mean you have to have a
> > profit!
> 
> Why and why? There are tons of free NNTP servers out there and there are already
> tons of rsync mirrors. Everyone doesn't hit the same server for rsyncs. Also,
> most (if not all) of the Gentoo servers are hosted at universities with fat pipes.
> 
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