Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:16:06 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PLEASE use mirrors Message-ID: <20001116111606.C19438@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20001108223543.A7934@redhat.com> <8970-Thu16Nov2000154022+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <8970-Thu16Nov2000154022+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:40:22PM +0000 On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:40:22PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Wednesday 8 Nov 00, Christopher Faylor writes: >> If you all don't start using mirrors, then there will be steps taken to >> stop direct user downloads from the cygwin directory. This will not >> affect mirror downloads, only normal downloads. > >I'm in favor of doing this now. Why not? I can't imagine anyone >truly depends on it, given the number of mirrors we have. You'll have >to make special arrangements (e.g. http) for the snapshots page. I guess we could use mirrors on the snapshots page. The main reasons I haven't done this is that 1) I hate adding to the user confusion 2) I'd have to research how to do it. >I think Cygwin mirrors currently suffer because of the existing ftp >user limit. They can't get through either! If they are truly identifying themselves as mirrors they shouldn't have this problem, as I understand it. I should research this, too, though. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com