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From: sjw2264@cec1.wustl.edu (Stephen John Von Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Nude images removed from wuarchive
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Date: 16 Mar 90 23:27:39 GMT
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In article <7943@tank.uchicago.edu> duqu@tank.uchicago.edu (walter bismarck duque de estrada) writes:

>	Lost in all this controversy is the fact that WashU's archive
> is possibly one of the slowest to download from in the nation; downloading 
> any file will take over 20 min at .25 k/sec. The problem is that other places
> carry very limited GIF collections, for the lack of the aforementioned disk.
> It would be nice if some of the faster archives could handle some of the GIF
> files that Wash U carries right now instead of having them repeated at other
> facilities net wide.

Well, here at Wash U, the download rate is 50 k/sec (or more).  :) :)

Anyway, on a more serious note, I can understand why the folks here decided
to close the R and X rated section of wuarchive.  The loading by anonymous
users here was getting quite high, and thus, a limit had to be instated which
capped the number of anonymous sessions on the archive at any one time.  This
resulted in wuarchive being inaccessible during most of the daylight hours,
and thus it was unusable for most people here at Wash U.  I assume that
transfers of the R and X stuff were quite frequent, and this led to the
decision to close the section.  In my own humble opinion, I think it was a
prudent move.

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