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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1


From: Colin Walters
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:25:31 -0500

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:49, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:21:43PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > The disadvantage is that you then couldn't have multiple archives with
> > the same prefix mapping to two totally different URLs.  But does anyone
> > really do this?
> 
> Note that Tom's two 2003 archives have completely different urls in Andrew's
> list! 

But those one of those URLs is just a simple mirror for the other, I
believe.

>  I suspect that this may be a common event -- to use the change to a
> new archive to also move to a new host.

Really? I wouldn't suspect it's very common, but I guess we don't have
enough data to know.

> My feeling is that people _will_ move their archives around over time -- but
> will often want to keep their same email address (email addresses are often
> much easier to maintain because they require almost no resources) -- and that
> we shouldn't penalize this case.

Yeah.  It's a tradeoff between making moving archives a little easier
for the archive maintainer, versus making registering and using archives
easier for everyone using that archive.

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