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Derek Fountain
<derekfountain at ya To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
hoo.co.uk> cc:
Subject: Re: [plug] iinet dumping their ftp archive
26/03/2003 05:42
PM
Please respond to
plug
>I've already asked for a proper mirror of SuSE's site, rather than the
partial
>"updates only" bit they mirror now. I wanted the big "supplementary" stuff
-
>Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, etc. I got the usual "no demand, unable to comply
with
>your request" email back. So even when they are asked they don't
necessarily
>bother.
Reminds me of an OS/2 user group looong ago, who made a point of asking
hardware vendors for OS/2 drivers. One user reported that the vendor
replied something like "there's no demand, and I wish you OS/2 users would
realise that and stop filling up our mailboxes, and let us get some work
done".
RichardM