From maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov Thu Nov 9 17:36:18 2000 Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA94960 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:36:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:35:56 -0800 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.129.8]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 35-62055U1500L100S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:35:44 -0800 Received: (from maine@localhost) by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA9GZhO10386; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:35:43 -0800 From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <14858.53855.289106.851542@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:35:43 -0800 (PST) To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: (SC22WG5.1952) WG5 ftp archive In-Reply-To: <200011090945.KAA93462@dkuug.dk> References: <200011090945.KAA93462@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid John Reid writes: > Dick Hendrickson pointed out to me that the US reflector is > not working. The one at ncsa may be gone (I haven't checked there in some time). And neither jpl nor Mallory's j3-fortran.org site ever got a reflector working to my knowledge. However, I believe that the wg5 mirror at it still up. It also has a symlink from I just checked and it looks to have some new files as of 9 Oct 2000. The only newer file I noticed at the nag site was the n1422.txt just added yesterday, which I wouldn't necessarily expect to have gotten mirrored yet. Admitedly, the reliability, performance of the dfrc mirror have been marginal since our firewall went in 2 years ago. And the sysadmin responsiveness hasn't been nearly as good as marginal. The x3j3 mirror at dfrc is not currently up (because we've been waiting 2 months on a request to have the firewall allow that connection in place of the previous one to jpl). But to my knowledge, the wg5 mirror here is alive. I cannot guarantee performance or reliability. (And I'm afraid that I can guarantee sysadmin responsiveness - but what I can guarantee is that it will be poor). It is quite possible that you might get better performance transatlantic than through our firewall. (I get a lot better usenet news performance from home with a 56kbaud modem to my ISP than I do recently here with a local ethernet connection to our local usenet server). But the wg5 part of our mirror does still appear to be up. P.S. I have on occasion considered telling our sysadmins to just forget the whole mirror thing...just because it's been done poorly enough to be an embarassment. But so far, I've not quite gone that far. P.P.S And our problems have more to do with the management than the sysadmins themselves. I shouldn't directly blame the sysadmins, who are mostly laboring under problematic constraints. (Actually, most of them seem to end up laboring elsewhere after only a few months here - which is one of the bigger problems - lost another yesterday). -- Richard Maine maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov