Re: Pointing to popular FTP sites

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Joe Sewell (jsewell@iu.net)
Tue, 22 Nov 1994 19:41:32 +0000

>I fear that a ready-to-click link pointing to oak.oakland.edu will cause
>people to just click without thinking, and thereby increase the load on
>the central archive sites. Or more likely, increase the amount of mail
>I get saying "I couldn't get into site foo.bar, is it closed down?".
>
>I suppose I could make the links point to some randomly chosen mirror
>site, but that just moves the problem.

Well, if it were strictly HTML destined, I'd suggest making a separate page
of mirror sites for the files you mention; that way, they could click
whichever mirror site they choose. An alternative would be to use a form.

Of course, that doesn't help in this particular situation, since the
destination is text, with a nod to HTML.

I suggest mentioning the main site, & make a note of the mirror sites in
one place.

Joe

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