From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: EPZip 1.00
Date: 16 Nov 1997 23:09:48 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA> wrote:

> firewind (firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org) writes:
> > ...but ftp.cdrom.com should be fairly reliable.

> I don't know about now, but as of a few weeks ago ftp.cdrom.com was really
> UNreliable, down sometimes and often you'd go to get a file from it or
> view a directory and get garbage like "Extended info error" and stuff
> instead of a directory/file. I hope they've fixed that since then but I
> won't believe anything except my own five senses where this is concerned.

Yes, I believe cdrom.com had a disk crash a while back. Regardless, it is
-overall- the most reliable of the simtelnet mirrors. No one mirror is
perfect 100% of the time.

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