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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:33:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Here's a radical idea...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.970224162840.5851A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970224183048.529B-100000@nagual.ru>

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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote:

> Fallback to ftp.freebsd.org clearly indicates error (old version not
> available or even deleted from master site) and you want to make this
> error as default case masking the real problem. I vote NO.

The handbook's guide mentions that someone is planning to add
support for auto-determination of the nearest ftp site.  Perhaps
it would be better to add this support rather than try working
around the problem of bad ftp sites.


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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