Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >On Monday 29 May 2006 01:11, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> >>>On Monday 29 May 2006 00:43, Teresa and Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Don't use that one. LOL Which is it so the rest of us can avoid it? >>>>Why ask for problems when we have enough already. ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>I am using it becaue I am only allowed to download a certain volume per >>>month and downloading from that mirror is 'free' for me - the traffic to >>>and from that one does not add up onto my free traffic. >>> >>> >>Well, if they corrupt things, I can see why they are free. That really >>sucks but I guess you are stuck with crossing your fingers and hoping it >>will be a good file. >> >> >> > >it happens one time a month or so. > >And they aren't 'Free' because the ftp server runs out of disk space once in a >while (which is the reason for the corruption most of the times, or there was >a cutted line again, or one of the routing facilities (Göttingen) we depend >upon, has problems again), but because the ftp-server is part of our >university network. And everything transfered in the internal network is >free. > >And that is why digests are a good thing. > > >
Now I see. At least you knew something was wrong and got it corrected. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
