[Foundation-l] dumps

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/2/24 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>> It may in fact be much more user friendly to
>> simply offer an enormous text file for download because users don't
>> have to unpack it.
>
>
> Another point, which I forgot to mention.  If you have the bandwidth to kill
> and just want an enormous uncompressed text file, why not just screen-scrape
> everything?

Because that involves the servers' CPUs as well as bandwidth.