It's the whole Old Europe/New Europe thing. Apparently Amsterdam is in New Europe (see the subject line if you have any doubts).
Ian It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not Ian D. Stewart Appl Dev Analyst-Advisory, DCS Automation JPMorganChase Global Technology Infrastructure Phone: (614) 244-2564 Pager: (888) 260-0078 Tim Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Maven Users List <users@maven.apache.org> edu> cc: Subject: Re: Announce: New european (Amsterdam, NL) Maven 2.0 mirror 05/18/2006 08:53 AM Please respond to "Maven Users List" Stefan Arentz schrieb: > On 5/18/06, Tim Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Great news!!! Just tested and the downloads are a lot faster now. > > But you are on the 'other' contintent! :-) If germany is the 'other' continent then I am :-) Universities here can get an .edu domain too. > > I think what Maven needs is a bunch of extra mirrors in the US too. > And maybe a smarter downloader module that figures out the closest or > least busy mirror. > >> Just one note. In the settings.xml example in your announcement you >> forgot the closing >> tags for <id>, <name>, <url> and <mirrorOf>. > > Fixed :-) > > S. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]