"Hemsley, Trevor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I realise that some people probably wouldn't be able
> to use a bzip2 compressed file

Right.

> so it might be necessary to host both
> but, hopefully, the check for bzip2 support could be done in
> update-nessus-plugins and be transparent to the user (i.e. download
> and use tar.bz2 only if bzip2 found in $PATH). 

Good idea.

> That'd get you down to "only" 14GB/month ;-) Wouldn't stop abuse
> like fetching the plugins once/hour but would reduce bandwidth
> requirements for legitimate users. 

If people downloaded the archive every day instead of every hour,
we'd save 96% more :)

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