On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:57:23PM +0800, Chris Kloiber wrote: > 1) Because the mirrors are "tiered". In other words, there are a few > mirrors who get the bits directly from Red Hat, then there are other > mirrors who get the bits from those who got the bits from Red Hat. If All is good and well for those who use mirrors. > the first tier mirrors opened public downloads early, then the second > group of mirrors would not be able to get the bits as they had to fight > for connections. Thus everyone would be complaining that they could not > get the bits. This isn't applicable for torrents and freecache. There's no point not to open those once you have a master, and an initial seed community. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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