Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:13:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror Message-ID: <38ED6062.29A81EF@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061419220.35934-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
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Doug Barton wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > > David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > Access to ftp.internat.freebsd.org from the USA (and presumably > > > elsewhere) is an abomination. Isn't there *anyone* with an permanate FTP > > > server that could officially mirror the crypto bits from > > > ftp.internat.freebsd.org? > > > > For a mere $100,000 per year I could anchor a boat 3 miles outside the > > golden gate and get a wireless T-1 service. Anybody got some change? > > At 3 miles you may run into a curvature of the earth problem over > water. Nah, it's a lot further out than that. The horizon is 14 miles, and you can always put the antenna on a tower on the ground, and on the top of the mast on the boat. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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