Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <000501c54842$99115ae0$0202a8c0@FAMILY> From: "David Burt" To: References: <001d01c5483a$2beb6f80$0202a8c0@FAMILY> Subject: Re: badspammer and cygwin setup Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:25:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit just tried another site: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin/ was able to download setup.exe no problem - so fixed but do not why? thanks for your help d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" To: "David Burt" Cc: Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:50 PM Subject: re: badspammer and cygwin setup > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Burt wrote: > >> BlankCan anyone help - I have tried to download cygwin setup.exe and my >> PC > ^^^^^ > Huh? > >> (runs windows XP with SP2) thinks its a spambot and I get re-directed to >> badspammer.html >> >> any ideas? > > Dave, > > Which browser do you use? Do you use proxies? Anonymizer sites? Please > provide more details about your network setup... > > On a different note (a general question to the list), any reason why > setup.exe isn't mirrored? Can the setup executable (with a versioned > name) be placed in the Cygwin package root directory (i.e., where > setup.bz2/setup.ini usually goes)? > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total > Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/