badspammer and cygwin setup

David Burt david@burt7259.freeserve.co.uk
Sat Apr 23 22:09:00 GMT 2005


just tried another site: 
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin/

was able to download setup.exe no problem - so fixed but do not why?

thanks for your help

d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "David Burt" <david@burt7259.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:50 PM
Subject: re: badspammer and cygwin setup


> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Burt wrote:
>
>> BlankCan anyone help - I have tried to download cygwin setup.exe and my 
>> PC
>  ^^^^^
> Huh?
>
>> (runs windows XP with SP2)  thinks its a spambot and I get re-directed to
>> badspammer.html
>>
>> any ideas?
>
> Dave,
>
> Which browser do you use?  Do you use proxies?  Anonymizer sites?  Please
> provide more details about your network setup...
>
> On a different note (a general question to the list), any reason why
> setup.exe isn't mirrored?  Can the setup executable (with a versioned
> name) be placed in the Cygwin package root directory (i.e., where
> setup.bz2/setup.ini usually goes)?
> Igor
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