lannie opened this issue on Apr 19, 2001 ยท 12 posts
Dr Zik posted Fri, 20 April 2001 at 1:15 PM
Hi Folks! Thanx for keepinmg the site up, lannie & friends. It's a wonderful resource. And thaxll: if you want to get a sense of how mass downloaders are adversely affecting these sites, think of it this way: a bridge that's designed to handle ten thousand cars per day suddenly gets that many per hour. In other words, multiply your seemingly harmless activity by the number of people throughout the world also using their "beloved Getright"--many at the same time--and suddenly the site becomes inaccessible to the rest of us. I'm just suggesting that if you can get the stuff you want from a free site without using a mass downloader, please do so to be considerate of us who don't use one. Otherwise, many of the sites will simply shut down or make it generally harder for any of us to visit them. Peter (Dr Zik)