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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Patch for mirroring correctly?
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:32:13 -0800 (PST)

And this way we don't overload the author's site, as some of them started
out fairly slow, and others we've had problems with (alpha.gnu.org, for
example ;)).

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

Seth Woolley said:
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> Might want to make a "current full mirrors" wiki page, Andrew. Then you
> could put http://irc.positivism.org:8080/ too, and everybody else can
> add themselves to it, too. It would be good for some areas that put
> bandwidth limit on geographic areas like Portugal (I hear). That way
> you could select mirrors by region like you can with SOURCEFORGE_URL,
> etc.
>
> When sorcery implements multi-mirrors, then we can make the
> sourcemage.org mirror show up by default first.
>
> Then we can have an option called "PREFER_MIRRORS" which if set, will
> download by preference off of the mirrors (again for the Portugal case
> or if you have a mirror inside an intranet) before falling back to the
> author's website.
>
> Seth

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