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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!uniwa!nfm From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How about a few more Australian mirrors Date: 17 Sep 1992 21:24:29 +0800 Organization: The University of Westrn Australia Lines: 24 Message-ID: <19a0ufINNcrl@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <1992Sep17.043629.5188@mel.dit.csiro.au> <1992Sep17.201012.4665@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au Keywords: Mirror rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes: >tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow) writes: >>It seems to me that we need another mirror here in Australia for 386BSD. I >>find that the 0.1-ports is not mirrored at all, and if I want to go back to >>get any of the 0.1 distribution at kirk.bu.oz.au, the times are pathetic. >>Is there any chance we could get the distribution mirrored on archie.au ? >I agree. Currently nothing but the normal distribution is here, and ftping >to agate is very slow (naturally), and there is a limit on the number >of anonyous users at times. And been getting really bad lately. Apparently the international link is saturated a lot of the time now. Could it be that archie.au is such a good archive site? :) I heard that garbo rebuilt after a hd crash from wuarchive and archie. Peter -- email: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au snail: Peter Cooper fax: +61 9 380 1041 Guild of Undergraduates phone: +61 9 380 3929 University of Western Australia "It was the banana that did it!" - Julia Marley