On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: > As a mirror maintainer, I prefer having old releases.
i'll second this point. > the kinds of mirrors we want. In other words: Fewer high-quality mirrors > is better than many medium-quality mirrors. I'd rather see 10 official > mirrors sync'ing everything than 100 mirrors doing partial sync'ing. ditto. having a huge number of mirrors is unfortunately only making the management issue much more difficult and the cost/benefit analysis in terms of efficiency actually starts falling at a certain point. in particular because o the apache pages are not optimized to make best use of mirrors. this is just going to need a lot of work because this only works well when setup this way from scratch. no criticism implied of people who have set it up. o lots of external places also just point directly at apache.org's download area anyway. regards, -jason
