Pointing to popular FTP sites
Coyt D Watters (cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 22 Nov 1994 23:14:21 -0500 (EST)
> What's bothering me is that many of the pointers refer to highly popular
> archive sites, such as oak.oakland.edu for DOS stuff or sumex-aim for Mac.
> My existing text explains about using mirror sites, so when I say "file
> msdos/foo/bar.zip at a SimTel site", I hope that the reader is primed to
> go look in his or her nearest mirror archive.
>
> So, is there any solution that is both convenient for WWW users and
> considerate of limited net resources? Should I leave my text as is,
> instead of making it WWW-ready?
What you might do is list the mirrors with geographic information, and
ask your readers to hit the one closest to them (generally the cheapest
to the net).
-Coyt
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