On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 03:07 AM, Ron Stodden wrote:
>> Is your troels script the be all and end all of what cooker is? >> troels is something you've written and while some folks may find it >> useful (I've never tried it myself), it certainly doesn't mean it's >> accurate. > > Correction. The author is Troels Liebe Bentson. I have just tweaked > it a little, told everybody how good it is, and recommended it. I > have no fiduciary interest. Whatever. My point still stands. > /It would help if Mandrake would 'fess up and document the ranking and > status of each of its mirrors transparently, instead of all this > secrecy./ I don't see the secrecy... it's a hit and miss thing, at the best of times. Someone may have stats on this, although I doubt it. Personally, I'm interested in getting this sort of data and cleaning up the mirrors list on MandrakeSecure for updates... I have not the time to do this for the major list of mirrors. Most of these mirrors, AFAIK, approach us and tell us that they're mirroring.. they're under no obligation to do so. Of course, when they decide to stop mirroring, I'm pretty sure that they *don't* tell us this. They also don't, I suspect, tell us how often they mirror or which site they are mirroring from. It would be nice if they did. You can point the finger and the blame at MandrakeSoft all you like... the reality is we have absolutely no control over what these mirrors do (or don't do). -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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