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Re: sourceforge uscan



On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:41:35AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> What sf.net is doing is a great way to force users to think about whos 
> bandwidth is better to suck from.  Many users don't think that far that 
> just download from the 'main' site.  Its slightly better than round 
> robin DNS because hopefully the user can pick a site near them.
> 
> If someone solves this problem in an automatic way that really works all 
> the time and is Free and doesn't depend on insane infrastructure around 
> the world, I think sf.net could be clued in.

CPAN tries to do something like this, IIRC. We've got a mirror at
debian.teleglobe.net that does it, too.

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