[plug] iinet dumping their ftp archive

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:23:53PM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
> Given all the talk on this list over the last few days about
> iinet's mirroring service, including their SuSE mirror, I've just
> received their March newletter.

Me too... coincidence?

> Looks like they're dumping most of it and just mirroring Tucows,
> Debian and RHL.

> Hey, thanks iinet! Those of us who aren't following the middle of
> the road (as defined by you) just got left on the wayside...

I think they're experiencing a typical problem... not enough
technical nous to keep a growing company ticking over smartly.

Admittedly some of the archives are probably a dead loss - PLUGgers
have already noted some to be sadly out of date. Perhaps some smarts
on their proxy logs can work out what's worth mirroring better than
the previous cycle of manual request and manual mirroring.

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