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Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS



On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:42:34AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > The mirror question, based on the wording and intent ("pick someone
> > topologically close to you, even if they're across the border"), will
> > need to stay, I think.

> I personnaly doubt that several users will choose something else than
> their own country. How many people in the world are able to know that,
> say, ftp.de.debian.org is topologically closer to them than
> ftp.fr.debian.org?

I gather that this is the sort of thing that's passed word-of-mouth
among Debian users in the affected countries.

> Maybe, the mirror country question should have a lower priority. This
> would allow "experts" to use any mirror and common users to have one
> less question.

Agreed.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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