From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 07:48:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15D237B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F420C43F75 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F6B3F4E; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:48:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Ken Smith Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:48:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3EFACF7C.32656.4418F92C@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030626143601.GC4506@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Site Form Letter X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:48:31 -0000 On 26 Jun 2003 at 10:36, Ken Smith wrote: > Can you please comment (to me) on the following? Is it appropriate? > Did I miss anything? I am also interested in how well it can be read > and understood by people whose first language is not English. Is > this too "American" in how things are said? Should things be phrased > a bit differently so they are better understood by a wider variety > of people? One thing to keep in mind is that a mirror can be fine for the purpose intended yet not meet the published recommend requirements. nz.freebsd.org has never met the minimum requirements. But it meets the need of that much smaller market. .nz has fewer people than many cities. I think the requirements may need revision as well. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/