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["Administrator" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  There must be other people in the same position ... I don't know
what can be done about that.  Perhaps blocking torrent on those old / new
files?  There are few enough torrenters with the dvd image, without some of
them serving corrupt files!

--
D.S. Hodgson - different perspectives


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:30 AM
> To: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux
> 10.1 "Remastered" available
>
> "Administrator" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I have a minor complaint about this ...
> >
> > Because you "replaced" the original DVD images, and I was part way
> > through downloading them using bittorrent, the downloaded
> files I had
> > were then a nice mix of the old and new, and I've been serving this
> > mix back to people who were also downloading the DVD images using
> > torrent.  I've only just noticed, and so deleted everything
> that had
> > been downloaded.  How many other people are in the same position?
> >
> > Can I suggest that this policy should be reconsidered, or something
> > done to ensure the partial torrent downloads don't become corrupt?
>
> We did not want to have both at the same time out there to
> save space on the mirrors.
>
> Sorry for this breakage, for next time we have to think of a
> different way to do it,
>
> Andreas
> --
>  Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
>   SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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