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>>>Does anybody know the reason for no more mirroring??

>>Yes. Political (and other smaller factors) ... it is best to leave it at that.

>I have heard that the ANU is no longer going to fund sunsite.anu.edu.au
>which will increase the costs for all the other Universities as software
>is brought in from the US separately for each user. Can't anyone in 
>authority see the broader aspects of these policies?

yes .. and you should point your agression at telstra/aarnet :)
What ever happened to archie.au? ... Why don't we have a national www cache
system?

It costs money/time/effort to maintain a ftp site, and it is pretty hard
to charge for it to re-coup money, you can't advertise as well as you can
on www on ftp :)
Love and voulenteers soon run out of steam.

I think we are starting to see the end of the free-lunch .. as people have
to pay for bandwidth for these mega-ftp sites, only certain people/companies
can actually save (read make) money from ftp sites (which save them OS
bandwidth and thus $$$)

Oh well .. my time on the soap box is over.
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