From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 07:57:17 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 8D0B237B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paiol.terra.com.br (paiol.terra.com.br [200.176.3.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970DC43F75 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: from bertioga.terra.com.br (bertioga.terra.com.br [200.176.3.77]) by paiol.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1772184A99F; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:56:39 -0300 (BRT) Received: from jonny.eng.br (unknown [200.165.170.201]) (authenticated user dioni21) by bertioga.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id A668E3F8085; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:56:37 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <3EFB09D1.5030406@jonny.eng.br> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:57:21 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: pt-br, en-us, en, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille References: <3EFACF7C.32656.4418F92C@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org cc: Ken Smith 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 14:57:17 -0000 Dan Langille wrote: > 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. Likewise, ftp.br.freebsd.org carries only i386 binaries, and full packages only the latest stable release. The first "problem" is not intended to be addressed soon, unless there is enough requirements from brasilian users for other arquitectures (amd64 and ia64, maybe). The second problem is being addressed right now, collecting funds to buy a new disk. Jonny -- João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny@jonny.eng.br -- "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." -- Samuel P. Huntington