On Sunday March 21 2010 03:18:42 Tony Stevenson wrote: > On 21/03/2010 02:01, Mark Martinec wrote: > >>> It was reported on the SA users' list that "takeyellow.com" was listed > >>> as a mirror on our download page before the mirror actually had our > >>> release files. Is that supposed to happen? I would think not. > >>> Comments? > >> > >> As long as the mirror is up to date within 24 hours then it is fine. > >> There is therefore that period of time where releases can be added to > >> dist but not yet appear on an otherwise valid mirror. > >> > >> The site itself and the mirror are fine, updating properly and not > >> breaking any rules that I can see. 'TakeYellow' is a directory listing > >> service, so it is no surprise that it looks like a parking page. > >> > >> No action to do here, move along :) > > > > To my taste, ASF mirrors should not be allowed to hijack nonexistent > > URLs within a mirror directory. Such practice should cause an immediate > > ban/drop of such site from a list of official mirrors. ASF mirror > > directories should not offer free advertising to visitors who > > try to access a nonexistent link, in good faith they are accessing > > ASF contents. > > > > Mark > > For what it's worth, there site does not have any advertising on it, in > the part of the site where they host the Apache mirror [1]
http://www.takeyellow.com/apachemirror/spamassassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.2.tar.gz.asc -> Got Website? Get discounts! Join now! Webmaster Discounts .com Sounds like advertising to me. > They are free to host whatever content they want to, so long as it is > not in the same uri space as the mirror content. Right, but this one is within the same uri space as the mirror content. > Also, how often do you go to a mirror to browse their site? I reckon > you just use the most local one to you, as linked from the respective > projects' download site. We received complaint when people rushed to grab the fresh release of SpamAssassin 3.3.1, before it propagated to all mirror sites. Mark
