From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 6:45:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Mail.Openet-Telecom.COM (opentisdn.isdn.dublin.esat.net [193.120.50.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75EB37BAA8 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com) Received: from openet-telecom.com (rocklobster.openet-telecom.lan [10.0.0.40]) by Mail.Openet-Telecom.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22286; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:51:23 GMT (envelope-from peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com) Message-ID: <38CFA208.A89FA1C3@openet-telecom.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:45:28 +0000 From: Peter Edwards Organization: Openet Telecom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Robinson Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Robinson wrote: > I think this saving shows a little respect > and concern for the less fortunate home user stuck with a 56K modem paying > $x/hour where x can be anywhere between 0.5 and 5... Sorry, can't resist. Given (my) local call rates, if I started downloading the 3.4 ISO image and did a mail-order purchase of the CD at the same time, the CD would cost a lot less, and drop on my doormat before the download finished. 20MB doesnt make a difference for this 56K owner, cause I'm sensible enough not to use it to download ~640MB images! I'd rather give the money to FreeBSD than my Telco, anyway. Same goes for release candidates: there'll be a release before my download is done. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message