Your response has too many words and numbered sections for me to read and take seriously. I'm sure its some kind of flame. All I'm saying is that Cliffe makes the files available to the main mirrors and then messenges his little mirror ICQ list with 3 or 4 links to download them from. At least, this is how he used to do it. Maybe its differnet now but you don't have to send your link back to him. Just mirror it out to your community.
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 08:48, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:16:17AM -0400, Matt wrote: > > If you want to get the CS pre-release links get on Cliffe's ICQ list as > > a CS mirror and he'll ICQ you with a pre-release link. > > 1) I dont want to be an official mirror, i FOR SURE know my machine > couldnt even handle the load. My Machine only has a 10mbit NIC, which is > sufficient for the local community, not for being official mirror. > > 2) Last time someone tried it on our WAN both of our webservers filled > easily 100mbit just for the updates. Thats nothing i want to handle > since i do not pay for traffic and i do not need to make more traffic > than useful or necessary. > > 3) Iam not only talking about CS Files, but also about HL Files > > 4) What you state above sound like a pure Buddy Thing, this has nothing > to do with rational Decisions at all. There are only few things which > could help making the Process really easy: > a) a good P2P Program which chooses the Distributing via Up/Download > Ratio and geographical Position > b) A Multi-Mirror Concept, i.e. Mastersite distributes to Continental > Mastersites in EU, US, Asia, AU/NZ, Africa (..), those distribute to > Country-Mastersites (i.e. EU to DE, FR, NL, FI, SE, ...) > Country-Mastersites distribute to official Countryside Mirrors and > Community-Mirrors. > This Line must not be broken or the Effect will be the same as the last > Releases (= Chaos). > Furthermore, FTP and HTTP might be sufficient for Endusers, i as admin > would clearly prefer rsync. > Also, it would help greatly reduce load if there were clearly more > mirrors. However, this is a chicken-egg Problem, since potential > Mirrorsites fear the load. > > However, this is a task, where VALVe must decide, not me. They have the > Influence to change something, and i hope, theyll someday learn that and > really do something. > > 5) Umm... what is Cliffes ICQ#? And why does he use ICQ at all? ICQ > sucks, get Jabber :o) > > > > bit annoyed about the mirror-(non-)concept, > -mc > > -- > | Rico -mc- Gloeckner > | mv ~/.signature ~/.mail-headers > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
