From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 06:14:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA09853 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 06:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.philips.nl (ns.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA09821 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 06:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id PAA01993 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:14:39 +0200 Received: from unknown(192.26.173.32) by ns.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with ESMTP id sma001776; Tue Sep 24 15:13:21 1996 Received: from aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com [130.144.70.193]) by smtp.nl.cis.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.9z-02May95) with ESMTP id PAA17562 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:16:15 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (nlnmg01 [130.144.80.6]) by aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-1.2a-960822) with ESMTP id PAA14918 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:14:01 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01/MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (Mercury 1.21); 24 Sep 96 15:14:06 +0100 Received: from MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01 (Mercury 1.21); 24 Sep 96 15:13:53 +0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" Organization: Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:13:53 GMT+0100 Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Reply-to: Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <18FA3243B5@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > And you could "cd /www/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD2.1.5/..." > I agree that it would make ftp sites much more accessable, but I figure that will also kill it. If people don't realise that their data is traversing half the internet to get to their desk, they'll be running "find /www/ftp.freebsd.org -name somepackage.tgz -print" on a dayly (hourly?) basis, saying "Oh, never mind it takes a while, I'll just come back in the morning for the results.". At least with standard ftp they'll do the traversing by hand and after a while they'll even learn to download ls-lR's and read them before even logging in. Groetjes, Kees Jan