[Manifold-l] download problems - still

[Dimitri Rotow]

> Once again, you are merely wasting my download quotas as 
> something is badly broken.
> Please send me this on CD - your website is far too unreliable!
>

Great attitude... 

I agree something is badly broken:

a) When people all over the world tell you that they have no problems
downloading from the manifold servers you ignore their reports.  Setting
aside the bad taste of disrepecting the time your colleagues have spent
writing notes to this List in response to your posting, this does not build
confidence you are considering Internet connectivity issues with respect for
the technical complexities involved.

b) This forum is between users and is not a communications channel to the
manifold.net factory.  I don't think anyone on this forum is likely to send
you a DVD for free, as this is something everyone has themselves purchased
from the Online Store if they wanted one.  If you don't realize this is a
peer-to-peer forum provided by directionsmag.com (not manifold.net), that
too indicates a disregard for webstuff details that does not foster
confidence in your Internet connectivity choices.

c) You don't seem to have bothered reading the 7x upgrade terms, or for some
reason are ignoring them.  If you can't or don't want to use the download,
you can buy a DVD from the Online Store.  See the News page on the
manifold.net website. 

As a side comment (which will sound harsh to some ears, since download
quotas are an unavoidable part of life in much of the third world and even
some first world countries): if you have download quotas by definition you
do not have a first rate connection to Internet.  First rate connections
don't have download quotas.  They have such fat bandwidth you can download
all you want through the pipe you have hired.

Does much of the world live with second or third rate Internet connections?
Sure.  Is it the right use of licensing fees paid by Manifold users to
install expensive metanetworks like Akamai to work around weaker Internet
service in some areas so that Manifold users who have paid for first rate
Internet connectivity subsidize those with lesser connectivity?  Heck, no.
The right solution is that those people who don't have first rate pipes can
spend a few dollars to order a DVD, which are made available at nominal
cost.

Cheers,

Dimitri