--On January 18, 2012 9:09:10 PM +0000 Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote:

I worry about the ethics of 'stealing' Fedora's bandwidth with other
people's ports; we should only be using their mirrors if it's explicitly
developed by Fedora.


I'm not sure I follow. If Fedora is making an rpm available for download, how is it "stealing" their bandwidth to download the rpm from there? Wouldn't be equally "stealing" to download it from anywhere else?

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