On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:29:18PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
> > Archives maybe, but mirrors? Just have one URL; people should be using
> > http caches with reasonable peers anyway.
>
> How does that protect against the site that Russ was referring to? The
> problem is that that site is out-of-date and the owner cannot be
> contacted. A cache doesn't hold onto pages for six months...
I was talking about the millions of qmail.org mirrors, but in the case
of qmail-related sites elsewhere links to those sites should be
maintained, and offline copies kept if the site goes defunct.
