Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:36:24 -0600 From: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP site Message-ID: <Mutt.19970207213624.dubois@night.primate.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199702080002.SAA07976@d2si.com>; from Alec Kloss on Feb 7, 1997 18:02:08 -0600 References: <v02130501af21375e048c@[198.3.138.121]> <199702080002.SAA07976@d2si.com>
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> The problem is that your site is for use only by the freebsd ports program, > and then very badly at that. And nowhere does it say that. > > When you say you have msql.tar.gz, it appears that you actually have msql, > which you don't have anywhere on your ftp site. So web searches looking > for msql list your site as having msql.tar.gz. They are led thinking that > your site is much closer than the australia site, and spend half hour > trying to figure out where you might have squirreled away the msql > distribution, only to discover to there great frustration that you were > lying about having it in the first place. Most (all?) of the time Web searches give you the exact URL's for the hits on your search. What do you mean about spending a half hour trying to find something squirreled away? -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software
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