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Re: Request for web page change
Go for it. I'll suck down the pages later this weekend and take it from there.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Request for web page change
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:40:27PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >We currently point everyone to the mirrors page on the main cygwin site.
> >
> ><humour>patches to our web pages gratefully accepted though(TM)</humour>
>
> Hey! But...! "I'm too busy." er, "I would but I am not qualified.", er,
> "I would but I don't agree with your licensing", um, "I was just making
> a suggestion! If you don't want to act on my great idea then fine!"
>
> >Seriously... do you want _just_ the mirrors.rcn site referenced or is
> >the current reference good enough with a bit more emphasis on "use
> >mirrors"?
>
> I would rather have no direct references to ftp://sources.redhat.com/ or
> ftp://cygwin.com/ . Or, rather, I would like to have a nice fat pipe
> to the internet and not worry about this at all but that is moving at
> a glacial pace at Red Hat currently.
>
> I guess you could make it clear that you are directing someone to a
> mirror and use RCN. It is very fast. You could also point people to
> other mirrors if RCN is unacceptable for some reason.
>
> Anyplace but sources.redhat.com for now. When I sent this email there
> were ten people downloading xfree binaries and our T1 was noticeably
> lagging.
>
> I have made some simple global search and replace changes. I can
> check those in if you want.
>
> cgf
>