Simon Paillard wrote: > Today the list is available in the following formats: > - today's master source rfc822: > http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist (used > by d-i choose-mirror) > - YAML after http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/qamirrors/Mirror-list-to-yaml.pl > back to rfc822 using http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/qamirrors/yaml-to-mirror-list.pl > > I saw that many apt-spy netslect-apt and others try to parse html produced on > the website... > > PS: debian-mirrors@lists.debian.org can be used to discuss mirrors as well. So, in 2000, I made a change to the website build process to make the Mirrors.masterlist source file be simply included onto the website. That change was reverted quickly, with the rationalle: | The decision was made that the masterlist was only for internal consumption. | Some of the mirrors asked not to have the email addresses made public | as this list would be great spam fodder. We thus create the other versions | of the list for specific purposes, e.g. web and ftp site. At the time, with only a few consumers of the data, that may have seemed a sensible position -- but look at the mess we have now. Someone should fix this; get the source file published properly on the website with the Maintainer fields stripped out if the link above hasn't already given the game away to spammers. -- see shy jo
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