> I find such restrictions IDIOTIC - to say the least.
> This piece of idiocy code interrupted my download in
> the middle of mirroring some 50000+ papers,
> including their .bib files. Who are you to tell me
> when to stop?> 
> Now I restarted it by adding -#L9999999 - how
> idiotic is that? Does it mean it have to stop at 10
> million files, but 9,999,999 are OK?> 
> I find such artificial restrictions absolutely
> stupid. PLEASE remove them ASAP! I know what I am
> doing, I don't need you to protect me!

This is to protect servers from people like yourself who can use the tool even
unknowingly, in abusive ways, and cause servers that aren't well equipped for
aggressive site ripping, from becoming overburdened. It also keeps you from
ending up blocked from a website for doing aggressive things. It's meant
entirely for people like yourself who don't understand why the limit exists in
the first place. And well, its also pretty easy to override if you do "know
what you are doing". However I think you don't know, since you dont know the
reason it was implemented in the first place.

Also, the limit is in place to keep the program from chowing down on all the
ram and breaking the site rip. If httrack were to crash due to memory
problems, it could potentially damage your cache data that you're ripping and
cause it to not unrecoverable. 

Please try to think logically, rather than have temper tantrums about things
you know nothing about.