[H-GEN] Multi-thread downloads

[Robert Kearey]

Raymond Smith wrote:

> I was not concerned about the use of download accelerators
> at meetings in response to traffic throttling; I am 
> concerned about their use at all. 

As a sysadmin, if I find someone is using a download 'accelerator' to 
access any of my services, it's shitcan persona-non-grata time. Expect 
to be firewalled off with malicious glee.

> It seems to me that such things are disrespectful of the 
> owners of servers and other users because they could so
> easily chew through connections and file handlers on the
> server side. These are finite resources that must be shared
> amoung all Internet users.

Exactmnet. GetRight and it's ilk are service-raping utilities, no less.

> Raymond

-- 
Rob K