Michael and all, In another part of life I work on TeX stuff. Randy had (not coincidentally :) implemented the same sort of redirector for CTAN (http://mirror.ctan.org) as for GNU.
The CTAN folks have reimplemented it (I'm cc-ing Rainer Schoepf of CTAN who was the principal person doing it, hi Rainer). Now they are wondering about having a standby available as a backup. I suggested that savannah would be a possibility, since of course all the necessary infrastructure is already there. If you/we (GNU hat) are willing, the two files are available from rsync://comedy.dante.de/MirMon -- mirmon.state and mirror.txt. Wdyt? If the answer is no for whatever reason, that's ok, we (TeX hat) can always figure out somewhere else. Just thought I'd ask here first. Thanks, Karl
