[GRASSweb-list]Mirror Sites out of sync accusations

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:59:07PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:24:25AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> [...]
> > M> Look into the source code of that page, the contact addresses are
> > M> stored as comment inside.
> > 
> > See, if they were visible I would have seen all along it was
> > Mr. Veevee  and CC'd him.  You see, most GIS people know each other
> > originally.  No wonder your mirrors keep getting sick.  Users can't
> > tell that the mirror maintainer might even just be a few offices down
> > the hall from them!
> 
> Think of privacy:
> So far I have no permission to advertise their names, phone numbers and
> email addresses. Even the commented inclusion of the names and email
> addresses is a sort of inofficial. If someone would ask all mirror 
> maintainers if they were willing to see their names there, we can do that.

We should ask for permission, or for a relay email address.

> BTW: I have written at least twice to all mirror site maintainers 
> to update their rsync procedure. Several of them didn't respond.

That was fine, but Dan's suggestion to have this public is even better. :)
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