On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/2/24 Anthony <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Brian <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> It may in fact be much more user friendly to > >> simply offer an enormous text file for download because users don't > >> have to unpack it. > > > > > > Another point, which I forgot to mention. If you have the bandwidth to > kill > > and just want an enormous uncompressed text file, why not just > screen-scrape > > everything? > > Because that involves the servers' CPUs as well as bandwidth. What's the average ratio of CPU-seconds to download seconds for an article? Surely a single machine could handle thousands of simultaneous screen-scrapers doing this 24/7. I don't buy it. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
