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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:24:45 -0700
To: Peter Nitezki <Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de>
From: Megan McCormack <meganm@asis.com>
Subject: Re: Glitch in German mirror of FreeBSD Web site
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At 01:30 PM 8/11/97 +0200, you wrote:
>At 12:34 Uhr +0200 11.08.1997, Peter Nitezki wrote:
>>I just discovered a small problem/nuisance in conjunction with the site
>>www.de.freebsd.org.  The URL to the preview of the newsletter points to
>>the US site, thus reverting the setting pointing to the German mirror
>>and switching back to annoyingly slow FTP performance.
>
>Sorry, this holds true for (almost) all of our mirrors. "Mirror" effectivly
>means mirroring the pages "as is".
>
>We are working on that.
>
>Nonetheless, the newsflash entry should probably contain a http://... entry
>also.

The newsletter is in PDF format and at the ftp site. As the ftp
site is not mirrored the link must be to the US site. 
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue1.pdf is no faster :)
I'll see about putting up a html version which can truly be mirrored.

Megan