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To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: What Europen sites mirrors directly from freebsd.org? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:14:34 +0200."
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:44:44 +0200
From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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> >Many Europen mirrors are real old (well at least a day).
> >How does the chain of mirrors look like? What site in Europe get it first?

> We have no control over when people mirror our site - when they run
> the mirror software is up to them - they ftp the stuff from us, we
> don't send it to them. Last I looked, src.doc.ic.ac.uk was fairly up
> to date, although that can (and will) change day to day.

Whether mirror or sup, it's probably started by a crontab.

Could each of the people listed in share/FAQ/Text/MIRROR.SITES perhaps
update an informational crontab string in MIRROR.SITES
(every few months, or when their site update chronology changes) ?

Such info would perhaps 
	a) enable the mirror sites to balance out peaks,
	b) reduce temptation to normal folk, to got to ftp.freebsd.org.

Julian S