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What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

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801 points tnorthcutt | 1 comments | 03 Apr 14 16:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rsync ◴[03 Apr 14 16:58 UTC] No.7524164[source]▶
As someone who knows a little something about this business, and who has been excited and enthusiastic about tarsnap from day one, I hope Colin pays no attention to what you have written and continues to provide his service (note, I didn't say "run his business") just as he has.

I want to live in a world where tarsnap is sold for picodollars.

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phillmv ◴[03 Apr 14 17:01 UTC] No.7524205[source]▶
Well, I hope he changes the "auto deleted if you don't check your email for 14 days" and just charges my credit card accordingly. Operating on pre-payment is kind of nutty.
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dalke ◴[03 Apr 14 17:17 UTC] No.7524363[source]▶
The "truly paranoid" would check backup status email more than once every fortnight. ;)
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CJefferson ◴[03 Apr 14 21:08 UTC] No.7526693[source]▶
What is google just decided to filter those e-mails into my spam folder and I miss both? That seems like a very possible thing to happen.
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1. dalke ◴[03 Apr 14 23:29 UTC] No.7527872[source]▶
Why haven't you white-listed them? The problem with the "delete after 14 days" is that it can be hard to predict on your side how long it will take to exhaust credit. But here what you're asking them is to work around a possible misconfiguration on your side. That's a different class of error.

If tarsnap is really a G2G business, then it makes sense to assume you know how to white-list an email address.

How many other misconfigurations should they deal with? What if the battery is dead on your cell phone when they try to call you after several missed the emails? (Or you're out hiking where there's no reception, or on a cruise, or in another country and didn't want to pay high roaming charges, or ...)