From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 14:14:52 CET
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:41:35AM +0000, Stephen Isard nicely wrote:
> Michele Andreoli wrote:
>
> > I have no times to check every link in this page, sorry. I think, most
> > of them are unexistent or out-of-date. The better is to remove all
> > mirrors, and to leave only the personal home pages.
>
> I've just had a quick look at the download mirror sites:
>
> Firenze: Netscape is unable to locate the server
> mulinux.firenze.linux.it
> Brasil: up to date
> tux.org: last changes Apr '99, README from v5r7
> Russian site: connection refused, maybe busy
> Denver: no response, timed out
> Poland: home page says latest release 10r5, download link points back
> to sunsite.auc.dk
> German sites: both up to date
> UK: latest release 7r6
> Australia: no response, timed out
>
> I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this. The fact that I
> couldn't connect to Russia, Denver or Australia might mean that those
> sites aren't really there, or it might mean that the sites are fine and
> are serving a useful purpose because the people in those places would
> have equal difficulty connecting to a site in northwest Europe.
List saved. I will remove old and inactives. Can you do a similar
test in the WEB PAGES section?
Michele
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