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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:48:51 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        www@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Select a server near you menu
Message-ID:  <l03010d02af8bacc2f35d@[194.45.188.81]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970429080945.11482B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
References:  <l03010d02af8b669a0aa2@[194.45.188.81]>

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At 15:46 Uhr +0200 29.04.1997, John Fieber wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>
>> Or, even better, have the two menus and a single "Go", and have the CGI
>> figure out the best location? (Assuming that non-English pages can be
>> available at more than one server.)
>
>How do you resolve a conflict between the language and mirror
>setting?  It isn't obvious from the interface that conflicts are
>possible.  Second, different users will have different
>preferences for how such a conflict should be resolved.  You have
>to give the user a way to specify preferred resolution at which
>point you have a complex interface that achieves exactly the same
>result as the single mirror list.
>
>-john


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