ctubbsii commented on issue #273: Fallback to archive.apache.org if mirror does 
not have tarball for specific version
URL: https://github.com/apache/fluo-muchos/issues/273#issuecomment-522133890
 
 
   > It seems like for this use case, the IP would be below the 5GB per day 
mentioned.
   
   Yes, but the Muchos case is added to all the other use cases that a user 
might have... which we cannot know. It's safer to avoid it, especially since we 
don't actually need to use it. The use case is not that important, IMO.
   
   > @ctubbsii do you know of any other Apache documents providing more 
specific guidance on how archive should or should not be used?
   
   No, but I watch the infra mailing list, and I see how frequent the requests 
are for requesting unbans. Too often, these bans are caused by people scripting 
downloads from archive.apache.org when a single manual download would have 
satisfied their use case.
   
   My personal opinion is that use of archive.apache.org should always be 
human-interactive, and never scripted or automated, in order to avoid abuse of 
the system. If you really need something from the archives, you can download it 
manually once, and configure your scripts to grab it from wherever you put your 
downloaded copy. I can't think of any good reason to *need* to script downloads 
from archive.apache.org when the use can be satisfied another way.

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