On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 06:59:32PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > We've had some discussions about the purpose of web site mirrors internally, > and concluded that we don't actually need a new push-mirror in Europe. In > fact, we could be disowning some of the existing 16 mirrors in the future... > > The two primary reason for this sentiment are: > > * mirrors don't generate enough traffic to warrant often rsyncing > * www.debian.org is close (network-wise) to most of the world, because > recently the global connectivity has been improving, a lot, enough to be > able to browse such a web site from anywhere, at decent speed > A third point is that we don't control the mirrors and have had many problems with some of the mirrors. Besides giving a bad impression of Debian when this happens (they carry the debian.org domain name), it wastes our time trying to get the mirror fixed.
-- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
