Stefan Trethan wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:26:23 +0200, Alan King <alan@...> wrote:
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>> Well things like that get a bit obtuse, I've seen it done before and
>>the percentage of use is usually very low on secondary outlets..
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>Well, it's certainly much less "secondary" than a different webspace at a
>different provider
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Pretty meaningless, all points on the net are about the same work
away. Heck the primary group itself has a more secondary files access
method than a real open FTP area..
> owned by a different person.
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Like who? What part of donating or selling a portion of my webspace
and bandwidth would lead you believe one would own it less than they own
a Yahoo group? Read through all the limitations of Yahoo group
ownership and you'll probably come to see that one can own just about
any other web space far more than you can own a group on Yahoo, no
matter who it comes from. Fact is you better have backups because if
you don't have the server in your physical possession you don't have any
real control over it anyway.
>It's a yahoo group, just like this one, easy to use.
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Again, while not hard, not the slightest bit easier than direct FTP as
intially stated, and actually a little less, especially as a secondary
file area. You can't even do something simple here like
http://www.superference.com/temp/cnc.avi because of the space
limitations. Get some real FTP space and realize it really won't be the
secondary space in the first place.. That took only a few minutes with
a $25 camera to shoot and upload, with free FTP. Easier than even
logging in to Yahoo and uploading a picture.
>If yahoo groups goes down, both goes down, and without message archives
>the files are not that important.
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Currently yes, the files are of less use of themselves than they could
be, wouldn't have a thing to do with only being able to use tiny files
though?. Of course if you're trying to explain to me that two 20 MB
file areas are better than $5 for some real space or $10 or $15 per year
with hosts rated higher on independent sites than the one Steve
mentioned then maybe you're right.. Of course you're right.
Ok, I'm convinced now, stick with the split 40 MB.
Alan