From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 07:37:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA27652 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 07:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.oec.com (mustang.oec.com [198.3.137.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27559 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 07:37:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mustang.oec.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id KAA07210 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:36:58 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mustang.oec.com: mail set sender to using -f Received: from dean-mac.oec.com(198.3.138.121) by mustang.oec.com via smap (V2.0alpha) id sma007205; Wed Feb 5 10:36:47 1997 Message-ID: <32F89C6C.6944@oec.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 10:42:52 -0400 From: Dean Anderson Organization: Open Environment X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FTP site X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is it too much to ask to have a normal ftp site, with the source distributions organized by category, with the original source tar file and a patch file for BSD? I found the source files in distributions, but I'm not sure if they contain the BSD patches or not. Not to mention the annoyance factor of having a single directory with 700 files. FTP sites have followed a general format for 20 years. Please don't try to "improve" things by breaking them. This is totally useless as an ftp site. It seems incongruous to promote FreeBSD and then have such a useless ftp site. -- Dean Anderson dean@aV8.com | dean@lpf.org We make technology fly! See us for | Stop Software Patents before they Networking, Firewalls, WWW and more. | stop you! Contact me for more info Check out http://www.av8.com for info | or send mail to lpf@lpf.org President | President Plain Aviation,Inc | League for Programming Freedom