From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 23:41:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0506116A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2562043FE5 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h8I6f6oK080231; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:41:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:41:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Josh Brooks Message-ID: <20030918064106.GD51544@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200309181608.27767.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <20030917231542.U93367-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030917231542.U93367-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is 4.5, 4.6, etc. on the FTP sites ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:41:09 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 17), Josh Brooks said: > I am not here to go into a lengthy justification as to why I need the > older ones (damn, I just knew the answers would all be "but why would > you not just upgrade") > > The point is, why are they not on the ftp sites anymore ? > > I suspect there is no good reason for it at all - just a totally > arbitrary decision to remove things that didn't hurt anyone to keep > around. > > I think i am going to go remove all the faucet handles in my > bathrooms. Sound strange ? It is not any more of a pointless and > arbitrary removal of functionality than what was removed from the ftp > sites. Do you have to pay for the space taken up by your faucet handles? Try www.freebsdmirrors.org for a list of sites that have the disk space to keep old releases. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com