[plug] iinet dumping their ftp archive

[Quintin Lette]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:29 pm, bob wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:36 pm, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:19, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > I never really liked using their debian mirror anyway.
> > >
> > > Oh well.
> >
> > Ironically, their debian mirror is one of the few bits they're keeping
> > and promising to keep maintained and up to date...
>
> From iiNets Marh 2003 newsletter
> - Debian.  This is for the more technical customers, who use the Linux
>   operating system.  Only the i386 archive will be maintained.
>
> Only i386? Thats not a Debian mirror as far as I'm concerned (and maybe
> explains why Sarge is broken)

So now they are going to get even more traffic when people will download it 
anyway... directly! I thought the whole idea of mirroring was so that it 
SAVED them money by not having the same stuff downloaded over and over.

what might be more economical (although not something that would be highly 
popular with WAIX people) is taking the mirror off WAIX and having it local 
only, this would probably be even more annoying to most people (including 
myself being on arach.net), and possibly against the WAIX agreement, but it 
would provide a better service to their customers.

Then comes the nasty crunch.. they are *possibly* doing this so that more 
people do download the stuff directly and therefore going over their download 
limits and spending more money, although that doesn't sound right either 
except that it slows down 1/2 the people to 64k and allows for more people on 
their limited bandwith.

Summary: a pain in the butt for anyone not using debian or Redhat. :(
now to convince Tucows to mirror SuSE :))

My 2 c

Quintin