On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:11:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > A number of mirror maintainers asked that their address not be made > > public. Some may not agree with that, but they are volunteering > > the service so I think we should go along with their wish. > > Well, it _is_ public. I hope they know that it is available on public > CVS, which is available amoung other places on http://cvs.debian.org/ > and is in a debian package that has been burnt to hundreds of thousands of > CD's and is installed on every potato system by default..
It's not indexed by web crawlers and is not displayed prominently, though, and we prefer to keep it that way. FWIW I found a few sites (run by developers) that actidentally had the file displayed for googlebot to see, and had the page owners remove it :) > > All we need to do is to prune the master list so only the needed > > info is shown on the public page. Give me a format you want the > > data in and you'll have a new, public page in short order. > > I need the same format we have now. grep -v Maintainer: on it would seem > to work if that really satisfies these people's concerns. We can make a script to update a public copy of the file along with the other quarterdaily(sp?) cronjobs on www-master. Any preferred location for the file, and name? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
