[seqfan] Re: b-files, reply to Antti

[Neil Sloane]

If someone tried to download the b-file archive, wouldn't that
really put the OEIS into a coma? And do more damage than someone
downloading a few b-files at a time?

Neil

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com>wrote:

> What about periodically making a single compressed archive of the
> b-files?
>
> This will save you both bandwidth and web server load.
>
> cron(8) can do it easily, though something like git/svn/hq would be
> better for me.
>
> Since you can't enforce not downloading via different IPs, there
> is no point to make it hard IMHO.
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 09:07:09PM -0500, Neil Sloane wrote:
> > There are about 46,000 b-files now. It is OK, I think, to download
> > a bunch of them (subject to the license agreements, of course) as long
> > as you don't clog the server.
> > Neil
> >
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