Re: The FAQ system approaches obsolescence. What do we do

Eric S. Raymond (esr@locke.ccil.org)
Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:12:49 -0500 (EST)

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> And then? The 'popular' Web servers will become crowded while everybody can
> now just read news.answers at their local site. WWW servers are nice, but
> if those docs aren't spread around, the load on say a www version of
> rtfm.mit.edu might become rather big if only one such server exists.

The Net community has already dealt with this problem once in connection with
FTP sites. That's why modern ftpds have mirroring software and FTP resources
are commonly listed with a bunch of mirrors and the objurgation to pick the
closest. One could do this in a Web document, too.

What this does suggest is that an extension to the anchor format supporting
multiple alternative sources might be a good idea.

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