🚀 go-pugleaf

Every time I use archie, I am amazed at (i) how very useful it is, and
(ii) how geographically stupid it is.  It generally makese sense to
use archives that are net-wise close to oneself.  Yet archie gives me
many site-references in Europe, Japan, Australia, etc in addition to
US sites.  And I'm sure my friends in Sydney and Munich don't care to
use US sites any more than I want to use mine.

Is there any way to limit archie's search only to "close" sites?  If
it's in TFM, I haven't found it.  I can hack a script to filter out
distant sites, but it seems to me archie would work faster, handle
more requests, and be more useful were there a built-in 'give me only
local sites' option.  This could be simply based on country-codes and
still be right most of the time.  Thoughts?

jse