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So my host JUST implemented a plan where you get more b/w depending upon

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how long you've been a customer, so my entire group is now up to 240G.

Yes, the TAL archive will be back, soon infact, once I'm done today

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[hopefully] at work, and I've finished the PHP limiting software. I'm

going to either limit all MP3s older than 4 shows to 3 downloads / day, or

7gig total downloads per day --- I'm going to make an exception - change

the podcast to just the past few shows and leave those unquoted (for now).

Many have emailed, and I'm glad to know that "actual" people were using it

=) I even got apologies from one of those double downloaders! :) Keep

emailing, I'll get it up soon.

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Due to my ENTIRE 75 Gb of bandwidth being slurped in three days, I'm

taking the TAL archive offline. What I'm planning to do is simply host the

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latest few episodes from now own, perHAPS with a sliding scale of certain

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other episodes, but the folks slurping the ENTIRE archive in a ten hour

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period, or even the inconsiderate person that fetching the entire lot

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TWICE, but given how close I am to my max, I can't afford to do it

<div class="intro"> As promised, I've put together a "This American Life"

until this billing period is over (July 6ish!).

MP3 archive, as well as a podcast of the most recent episodes. <br>

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The episode downloads are restricted to three per day --- I don't mind folks

with wget fetching them all, but it was just too much of a bandwidth drain.<br>

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I hope not to have to limit the podcast downloads --- at the moment they're

not, and 250g of traffic isn't _easily_ eaten up. <br>

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A few points:<br><ul><li>Yes, the RSS feed works fine in iTunes. PLEASE don't submit it to Apple as a list that you'd like to see on their service. I can't afford the traffic or attention.</li>

<li>The podcast will be updated regularly with new episodes, but if I haven't fetched it yet, its cause I haven't gotten around to it yet. If I'm a week behind (as in the Real file was made available a week before, then feel free to email me.</li>

<li>I'm not accepting donations. At all. WBEZ Chicago deserves the cash - they make content, I simply re-encode it.</li>

<li>If you're not a starving student, or someone who makes less than ... say ... $30,000 a year, get off this site. Subscribe to the <a href="http://www.audible.com/talf">Audible</a> downloadable version. Its not [too] expensive, its updated often, and is legal. You can afford it.</li>

<li>Somehow poor, but still wanting to give me money? Go <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/wbez/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIO%20NS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1841">here</a> and donate.</li>

<li>More amazing to me is that apparently, TALs are made available through the iTunes Music Store! $3.95 isn't fair, IMHO, but thats not for me to decide. You can buy it from there too.</li>

<li>This site is still up by the good graces (or lack of awareness) of the folks that make the show. They ask, it goes down.</li>

<li>How to rip/encode these shows on your own? I'll have a guide up later, but for those looking to learn something : <a href="http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=streambox+ripper&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Google it</a></li></ul>

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So, the archives. They are sorted by year.... Maximum 4 downloads a day for every year except 2005, which is capped at 10.<ul>

<li><a href="http://mirrors.geekymedia.com/talmp3/2005">2005</a> -- Those of you grabbing the new episodes, you _could_ just use the podcast...</li>

<center>Or grab the podcast : <a href="tal_archive.html">This American Life<br><a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/tal_podcast.rss">Podcast</a>

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