From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-27T08:41:43+09:00
Subject: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby?

Hi,

In message "Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby?"
    on 04/05/27, David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:

|Btw, how is helium.ruby-lang.org connected to the Internet (how big is 
|the pipe, where is the physical location of the server)?

It's at my company's office connected with 2 1M lines.

|I see that 
|helium.ruby-lang.org handles almost all the traffic (MX, SMTP exploder, 
|website, ftp, and CVS). I also see that the download link for latest 
|source release has been handled by a script which redirects to random 
|mirror. What about doing the same for FTP (or restricting the FTP 
|access) to save bandwidth...

Connection is OK except for the occasional download bombing.
Maybe we will release 1.8.2 using BitTorrent or something like that.

							matz.