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On Sun, 04 May 2003, Don Lewis wrote:

> Also, this proposal won't scale very well.  Think about what happens
> when the zillions of machines in each time zone all attempt to contact
> the ftp server at the same time.

It could be configurable to use a mirror.

/Oli

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