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In <3262009f.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir) writes:

>Peter Vincent (peter@vincefam.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> In message <53irvo$lmf@wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Stewart Brodie wrote:
>> 
>> Any chance of an automatic mirror [of ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk] on the Demon >> ftp site, either of the full
>> Freenet site, or just the ArcWeb directory?  I did suggest this to James
>> Coates many moons ago during his brief sojourn as Demon's Acorn guru (do
>> they have one now?), and he said he would suggest it to Malcolm Muir, but
>> nothing seems to have happened.

James & I discussed it (exchanged a couple of e-mails, IIRC).  I don't
think there was any problem at this end (I think we were pleased at the
prospect of reducing the load on our server)

Geoff *is* copying the ArcWeb files across manually at the moment.  As for
the others, they are not, but frequently the applications are uploaded to
ftp.demon.co.uk too.  With the introduction of the Demon WWW HomePages
service, many people are making their software available on their node's
web pages too.

>> Whilst I'm sure the whole Acorn Internet community is very grateful to
>> Southampton for hosting the site, access is frequently slow, and is no doubt
>> putting a strain on their resources.

I'm afraid there's nothing we (in Southampton) or Demon can do about the
speed.  The problem is thought be the JANET LINX gateway.  I can assure
you that there's no speed problem at all accessing from within the
academic community (or at least from the same Ethernet segment :-)

>I am trying to add to the mirrors, however at the moment the
>International bandwidth problem means I am having difficulty
>sustaining the mirrors we already run. I will add it to the growig
>list.

:-(

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Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
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