On 4/24/06, Amit Aronovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a thought - maybe, if approached by the right people, they could be > persuaded not to count specific IP's > (e.g. Hamakor mirrors) for this "fine"? > > After all, open-source distros and package updates are not such a big > chunk of traffic (surely when compared to P2P networks) - they might > think it's worth it for a little PR.
All ISP's in Australia meter downloads and limit them (unless you buy the most expensive package which is unlimited). Once you reach the allocated limit you MAY get downgraded to dial-up speeds (the contract allows them, apparently they will give you some slack before actually enforcing this). BUT - most ISP's also host all major Linux and open source mirrors and generally do not count traffic to their local servers (because it doesn't load their outgoing lines). Now I don't expect you can convince each and every ISP in Israel to host all major Open source projects but maybe if they count only traffic abroad towards your limit (i.e. ignore traffic to IIX) then it will make sense - after all that's most of their expense, isn't it? --Amos -- "(God) is my favourite fictional character." - Homer Simpson ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
