[plug] iinet dumping their ftp archive

[Quintin Lette]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:39 pm, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> 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 have already noted some to be sadly out of date.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.

And unfortunately you'll probably find SuSE isn't one of them. :((