OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

[Fred]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:12, Tilly, Lawrence wrote:
> It could also be data access time.  Not sure what software they're
> using, but while you're doing your search you're probably tying up web
> threads, worker threads in a JVM (assuming java-based application
> server), database connections and cycles on the database machine. 
> 
> By limiting that to 90-day chunks they probably have a pretty good idea
> of the resources you'll have tied up. If they let people pull unlimited
> requests, it could have some pretty negative impact on their service.
> That would not serve that customer well, nor would it look good for all
> the other people trying to use it and getting poor performance.

If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or
30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their
computers!!!!

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