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In article <C0Dtss.L3t@waterloo.hp.com> gould@waterloo.hp.com (Dan Gould) writes:
> Since the newsgroup comp.archives.msdos began I have observed that announced
> software does not appear right away at the mirror sites. In particular
> the time from SIMTEL20 toget WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU seems to be several days.
> 
> Does anyone know how long I should wait before attempting to FTP an archive
> from a mirror site?

I do not know about SIMTEL20 -> wuarchive, but I can tell about some
of my cursory observations on Garbo -> 3 mirror sites.  Judging very
perfunctorily from our logs it would seem that the usual lag before
a newly uploaded package is at all the three sites is below two
days, but over one. 

But if you are asking because you have problems getting in to some
site, consider use automated FTP.  In fact consider it anyway,
Gentle Users.  This is a trick I often advocate, since it decrases
the unncecessary connection time.  If you have a BSD Unix host get
  1670 May 24 11:51 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/ftp/batchftp.inf
 29520 Oct 31  1990 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/ftp/batchftp102.tar.Z

I use these for all my own downloading whenever I have to get
something by myself (like for example when I got the recently
discussed probe images from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory archives
to Garbo).

   All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
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