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That only explains a decision to take them down ITFP. What can be gained by shredding all that information? Maybe they aren't shredding it. Maybe they just want
by dbtx 7y ago
That only explains a decision to take them down ITFP. What can be gained by shredding all that information? Maybe they aren't shredding it. Maybe they just want no publically available copies to exist.
- colejohnson66 7y agoLess disk space being used maybe?
- jedberg 7y agoIt explains both. Blocking archiving will save a bunch of bandwidth as well as not having to scale up the servers for the load of dealing with the archiving.
- Diagon 7y agoYes. The archiving was starting to take a lot of bandwidth. Some care had to be taken not to bog down Yahoo's servers.
- dbtx 7y agoI'll give you that. I wasn't thinking of a load spike, just that of the perpetually continued service. But it doesn't excuse much. Capt. Obvious says, "it's temporary, it could have been anticipated, 'protecting' their datacenters from the load in exactly this way will almost certainly be interpreted as ill will, there are options not being taken such as throttling or even voluntarily sending it all to archive.org"