> [...] I can't find any mention of this mirror in the SA documentation or on > the > SA Wiki. These sorts of things should be more public. [...]
After stripping all the mixing up between project volunteers and donated resources on the one hand, and those people's personal life... I guess that's a valid point. What are those mirrors? Who runs them? Clearly, it's not SA, neither the ASF. Yes, it is obvious to me who is behind those servers, as it probably is to most folks on this list. But it is not that obvious to a system administrator not closely involved in the project. FWIW, the first step is transient to the users. It isn't even obvious to them, that the MIRRORED.BY file is hosted on ASF. All they usually get to see is the contents, in their local copy. Unless there's an issue, and the URL pops up in their cron mail. $ host -t TXT mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org descriptive text "http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY"; $ lynx -source http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY | grep -v '^#' http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/asf/ weight=5 http://www.sa-update.pccc.com/ weight=5 -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu...@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
