"Scott M. Dier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:13, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > As yet, you haven't really said why you oppose a proportional system, > > especially since it's easier to deliberately evade a fixed limit > > system. > > Include a 8mb /dev/null file as one of your datafiles. It compresses > well, and it helps your proportion. The fixed limit gives enough leeway > to deal with most licenses and rant-text. If someone becomes stupid > with splitting up packages, I think the ftpmasters will give them a nice > kick in the ass. Otherwise, how can you 'evade' this 2**15bytes mark?
It seems to me that an 8MB empty file is rather obviously not real content; I'm assuming that people are aware of what actual content does look like. But regardless--what exactly is the reason against proportionality?
