On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:26:35PM +0100, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:56:16AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > > I'm removing these links from www.qmail.org. It's been months and
> > > months since they worked. Michael Samuel seems to have dropped off
> > > the net. Does anybody know otherwise?
> >
> > No. This shows even more the need for multiple archives and mirrors of the
> > contributions around qmail.
>
> Archives maybe, but mirrors? Just have one URL; people should be using
> http caches with reasonable peers anyway.
How does that protect against the site that Russ was referring to? The
problem is that that site is out-of-date and the owner cannot be
contacted. A cache doesn't hold onto pages for six months...
A centralized, well maintained, well connected site is probably an
easier resource to use than a distributed set of randomly maintained
sites with varying levels of connectivity.
Regards.
