- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:26:57 -0800
- To: "Andre John Mas" <ajmas@newtradetech.com>, "Justin Chapweske" <justin@chapweske.com>
- Cc: <www-talk@w3.org>
> Traditionally mirrors provide a reference to their geographic > location. While by no means a guarantee to improved transfer > speeds, this is a useful reference, especially for clients that > wish to use a single source for data transfers (as opposed > to parallel downloads). I disagree; there are many, many factors to take into account when selecting a mirror; geographic location is quite low on the list, and can be found through other means in any case (see RFC1876).
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