Users will be somewhat unhappy if all of Wikipedia
goes down and never
comes back. Users will be *much more* unhappy if Wikipedia continues to
operate but is extremely slow, unreliable, and often down.
"Somewhat unhappy"? Come on dude. I mean, seriously.
On 2/18/07, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Users will be extremely unhappy when we are not able to continue to
> > provide our service.
>
Users will be somewhat unhappy if all of Wikipedia
goes down and never
comes back. Users will be *much more* unhappy if Wikipedia continues to
operate but is extremely slow, unreliable, and often down.
>
> > Why would a node that is close by be dead ??
>
> Because people tend to turn off their own computers whenever they want
> to. And because computers sometimes crash, or Internet connections go
> down.
>
> > NB when our customers find the argument "it's cheaper for us" not
a good
> > one, they have to realise that they are not paying customers.
>
> (Note that I didn't use the word "customer".)
>
> Timwi
>
>
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