-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 09:13 AM 8/12/2005, you wrote:
Is it really a good idea to build the ISO images on the server and mail them to the user?
No. It's a horrible idea. That's why we're not going to do it. :) Sorry for not making that clearer. The only time that the person is going to be e-mailed is when the .iso is ready for download. That message will only contain a link with perhaps some instructions.
Even a lowly CD image comes in at 650 MB, which will expand to 1 GB if base64-encoded for mailing. Who has got the luxury of that big a mailbox? How reliable is the delivery of 1 GB mails? What about DoS attacks on somebody else's mailbox?
I'd only build the browse pages on snowy and require that the customer uses jigdo-lite (www.jigdo.org) for download. The browse pages are pretty small so you can cache them all for a week or so. The actual ebook files would come from ibiblio.
I'd like to offer jigdo, but I don't know how easy it is for the average windows user to install and use. I'll have to check into it. Thanks. Sincerely Aaron Cannon
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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