[Theforum] BEO again

Ron Dorman rwd at csi1st.net
Wed May 22 02:06:04 CDT 2002


Isaac Forman wrote:

> Further to previous suggestions relating to the bandwidth usage of BEO and
> the costs involved in keeping it online, is the following a valid
> suggestion?
>
> I'd guess that at least some (if not, a good amount) of our BEO bandwidth is
> used by people downloading new browsers: the latest Mozilla, IE6, etc.
>
> Could we consider removing browsers (and linking to their official source)
> until they are not available as such? So, we'd refer people looking for IE6
> to MS, and the latest Mozilla to Mozilla's mirrors, while still serving
> those looking for older stuff like Netscape 3 and whatever else.
>
>
> Thoughts?


makes good sense to me.  what are the stats on latest version downloads?

Ron D.




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