Re: How do you grow a pineapple in non tropical areas?
> My interest is piqued on just how much bandwidth has been used on these
> threads!
>
> Doing a quick tally of the respecive threads:
> "How do you grow a pineapple in non tropical areas?": 17kb (not
> including this message)
> "how to pick fresh fruit": 63kb
> Total: 80kb
>
> Time to download these threads on a 56kbit modem (assuming full
> bandwidth connection): 80kb/5kb-per-sec (roughly) = 16 seconds.
>
> Time wasted reading all threads on debian-users: hours.
>
> hours/16seconds = 1/450th of time taken to read all threads
>
> 80kb downloaded on a 256kb DSL connection: 4 seconds, corresponding
> fraction: 1/1800th
>
> Moving on to 1.5Mb or higher connection makes the download time pretty
> minute.
>
> So unless the connection that is available to you to download the
> messages is less than 56kb, the amount of bandwidth and corresponding
> amount of time required by you to is pretty small, considering the
> amount of traffic on debian-users, the amount of data downloaded and
> what I assume is an adequate 'net connection at your end.
Except that's the point, one *byte* of this bloody rubbish is more than enough.
The person who wrote the original message was (I hope) merely
uninformed. We had an argument about whether or not we should help
him. But it was just an argument, and no one got too upset, because it
was only a mistake (we assume).
The second guy was just immature (melons). He started somewhat of a
flamewar. But still, a joke is a joke and it's appreciated every once
in a while. But this is overkill. *WE GET IT ALREADY!!!* Enough!
RTFM
STFW
Just stop, OK?
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