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In article <1993Jan5.140526.20079@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>> 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.

Here is how I make a guess.  This is an extract from today's (19
hours') Garbo's top download statistics of my own files.  I made
moder18.zip available yesterday and now we have

  27 moder18.zip
   7 tsfaq31.zip
   6 timo01v.gif
   5 tspa3160.zip
   5 timo01e.gif
   4 INDEXTS.ZIP
   3 news-pd2
   3 /pc/pd2/moder18.zip   <----- see this
   2 tspa3140.zip
   2 bestpr24.zip
   2 QLINDEX
   2 0news-ql

Of course it could ocasionally be something else, but 
 3 /pc/pd2/moder18.zip  
format is a typical imprint of a mirroring site getting the file. 
This means that now after a little over one day, all the three Garbo
mirrors should have this file.

This is somewhat tentative, and of course one could check for sure. 
But this gives a general indication of the likely turnaround time
for Garbo mirroring.

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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
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland