Subject: Re: Setup mirrors
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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 23:34:27 +0000
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On 09/03/2020 23:11, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Robert McBroom!
> 
>> On 3/8/20 11:14 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> Greetings, Ray Sabee!
>>>
>>>> As an enthusiastic user of your software for many years, we would like to do
>>>> something in return.
>>>> We are very fond of the open source model and we would like to contribute to
>>>> this great project.
>>>> We have a lot of servers and per request on your website, we would like to
>>>> make one of more servers available for mirroring the packages.
>>>> I would love to know how we can set this up and it would be great if you can
>>>> provide me with some sort of manual or wiki page.
>>> Did you search the most obvious place for information?
>>> https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
>>>
>>>
>> That is the list of mirrors not a howto on becoming a mirror
> 
> The text was there prior to recent website downtime.

The text disappeared due to me just being a fumble-fingered klutz when 
testing the mirror checking script on the new hardware.

Anyhow, I've put that page back the way it should be.

Thanks for letting us know.

> Since then, a number of things gone wrong, including mailing list signature.

We have Top Men working on it, right now.
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