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[Chris Faylor]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 03:35:33PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> The machine is pretty beefy but the network connection isn't.  In fact,
>> I've been contemplating elminating direct cygwin downloads from sources.
>> They are pretty much swamping the connection.
>
>If you do this, then the /private/ section needs to be mirrored as well.
>I have no evidence, but I believe that the bulk of the the downloads are
>folks trying to test the latest & greatest -- e.g. my cvs stuff, or
>Michael's sumo-rpm stuff...

The bulk of the downloads are ftp downloads.

cgf