[GRASSweb-list]Mirror Sites out of sync accusations

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:16:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Why not have a link, from the front page, to a page called
> "mirror_freshness_check.txt"
> 
> this file is made by a cronjob once a day:
> echo "this date should be within 24 hours: `date`"

As written yesterday, a solution is implemented now on the main page.
I would like to reduce the number of pages, not increase it.
The site is already too large in my opinion.
 
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> M> Look into the source code of that page, the contact addresses are
> M> stored as comment inside.
>  
> nobody would have guessed that for 1000 years. Make a separate page.
> If they weren't so secret, you would have a lot more folks in contact.
> As it is, they think no one is using their sites...

The basic problem is that some of them (!) do not respond. I have
tried my best to avoid current out-of-sync problem.