From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 6 21:13:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8790E37BD46 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22291; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:13:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38ED6062.29A81EF@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:13:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: chat@freebsd.org, obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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