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David Priest (priest@sfu.ca) wrote:
>Australia must have the slowest connection to "the rest of the world" 
>existing.  *WHY* don't you mirror your damned website, so that a fellow 
>can read it at a reasonable pace?

Actually, I find the connections to Australian sites to be
pretty fast  ;-).  My nomination for "slowest connection to the
rest of the world" would have to go to Canada.

Look, the fact is that mirrors of popular sites exist only
because someone volunteers to set up and maintain the mirror.
If you want a mirror in, for example, Canada, then it has to
be done from the Canadian end.  I doubt that the GPM people
own any computers over there.  What you need to do is to
write to them and volunteer to give them a mirror.  While
you're at it, you might perhaps volunteer to rewrite the
Linux documentation.  The quality of any free resource
obviously depends on how much time the volunteers are
prepared to put into it.

Do the GPM people read this newsgroup?  I'm not sure.  You're
probably talking to the wrong people.  A more constructive
approach would be to e-mail someone in the GPM team with
whatever suggestions you have.  But make sure that they're
constructive suggestions; generalised bitching in a belligerent
tone is the best way to ensure that you're ignored.

I don't have any connection with the GPM people, by the way.

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