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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch mirror site


From: James Blackwell
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch mirror site
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:47:27 -0500

In lists.arch.users, Tom Lord wrote:
>
>     > From: James Blackwell <address@hidden>
>
>     > First off, happy holidays to you and your loved ones!=20
>     > 
>     > I've set up a mirror of all of the archives I could find. The mirror,
>     > available at http://sourcecontrol.net/mirrors, is updated on the 5, 25
>     > and 50 of each hour.
>
>     > Please feel free to use this mirror whenever you like. However, if you
>     > plan on frequently accessing an archive, I humbly request that you
>     > consider mirroring the mirror locally.
>
>
> So sweet.   As a recent example, somebody sent me mail saying "Ok, the
> FOO is ready in patch-37 of my --numbers-- branch."   Fine -- I update
> my local mirror of that guy's archive only to see it stops at patch-4.
>
> Perhaps he has a more recent archive that I don't know about yet?
> Sure enough -- 30 seconds at sourcecontrol.net saves me hours of
> back-and-forth in email to find the new archive.

/me blushes

Its a good day when one receives two compliments before noon! 


Some useless statistics:

Signed archives:       20

Active Mirrors:        56
Closed Mirrors:        14
Size of all mirrors :  1.5 gigabytes

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