🚀 go-pugleaf

In message <540nki$99c@wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Stewart Brodie wrote:

> 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.
> 
> :-(
> 

Can I make a little plea for those of us who use a provider other than
Demon?

I have had all the problems with bandwidth from JANET, but bandwidth from
Demon is even worse, I was downloading !Freenews 1.03 the other night at
91CPS!! Very frustrating.

Whilst I am very grateful to Demon for storing Acorn mirrors it doesn't
help if I have to use a differant provider for very good reasons. It also goes against the spirit of freely available free software comendably upheld by the people who wrote the freenet systems and its associated
applications.




-- 
Paula Thomas