[dcc2] Question about the necessity of multi file sends

Phoenix Fyrestar miyako_houou at comcast.net
Mon May 10 01:53:45 EDT 2004


While I do see your point, I can think of a couple of reasons to support this.
The first is that I know people who are unfamiliar enough with computers that 
they honestly do not know how to zip up a group of documents.  While these 
people are probably a minority on IRC, they do exist.
The second reason is that I do not think we should allow warez traders to sway 
judgement on the matter.  Personally, I don't think multi-file sends will 
have a huge impact on the warez traders anyway, since it would be just as 
easy for them to have a script that would automatically queue downloads 
anyway, if they don't already do this.
There is also a security angle to consider, if the protocol supports 
multi-file sends, then there is no reason for someone to send a possibly 
virus infected zip file.
The final reason I support it is that we never know what the future could 
bring, maybe if we impliment it, someone down the road will come up with a 
really neat way to use it.



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