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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
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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
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