* Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-05-14 12:55:49]:

> Florent Daigni?re wrote:
> 
> > * Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-05-14
> > 11:21:05]:
> > 
> >> > Personally I'm pretty skeptical of anything requiring more than 100MB.
> >> 
> >> However, current implementation (IINM) uses the cache to resume downloads.
> >> Thus, downloading anything bigger than that in more than one go has the
> >> potential of a lot of waste in retries (hence BW & time).
> >> 
> >> I know, it's a spurious reason since downloads in progress could be saved
> >> somewhere else until completion... but still is a reason for now.
> >> 
> > 
> > They are good reasons why we shouldn't implement download-resuming.
> 
> Could you please elaborate?
> 

For the n-th. time : not having that "feature" gives users a good
incentive to keep their nodes up.
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