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From: legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca>
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Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:42:18 -0400
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On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:49:30 -0500, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

>Got a note from an ISP today indicating that my website 
>was suspended due to data transfer over-use for the month. (>50G)
>It's only the 7th day of the month and this hadn't been a 
>problem in the 6 years they'd hosted the service.
>
>Turns out that three chinese sources had downloaded the same 
>set of files, each 262 times. That would do it.
>
>So, anyone else looking to update bipolar semiconductor, 
>packaging or spice parameter spreadsheets; look at K.A.Pullen's 
>'Conductance Design Curve Manual' or any of the other bits 
>stored at ve3ute.ca are out of luck, for the rest of the month .
>
>Seems strange that the same three addresses downloaded the 
>same files, the same number of times. Is this a denial of 
>service attack?
>
>RL

You can still access most of the usefull files, updated in 
January 2024, through the Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.ve3ute.ca/

Probably the best place for it, in some people's opinion, anyways.

RL