On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
The sensible bandwidth-saving way to do it would be to set up an rsync daemon on the image servers, and let people use that.
The bandwidth-saving way to do things would be to just allow mirrors to use hotlinking. Requiring a middle man to temporarily store images (many, and possibly even most of which will never even be downloaded by end users) just wastes bandwidth.