On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:23, chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk wrote: > Lee Braiden <jel@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > I've no idea what the cause is, but it seems to flake out regularly... I'm > > using mirror.ac.uk now. > > You do know that mirror.ac.uk is likely to be disappearing, to be replaced > by a completely different system...? > > See http://www.mirror.ac.uk/help/funding_announcement.html for details. This is a great shame. mirror.ac.uk has been a great service to academic and non-academic users. I suspect this is to do with the restructuring of JANET. Last year charging to institutions changed to all traffic entering and leaving instead of transatlantic traffic. mirror.ac.uk was always recommended as it was free then, but now, it makes no difference to academic institutions in the UK so the powers that be see no need for the service. I hope a replacement service emerges, the UK will be short of a fantastic resource otherwise. Tristan
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