From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 03:18:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 03:17:53 -0500 Received: from 209.102.21.2 ([209.102.21.2]:21776 "EHLO dragnet.seagull.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 03:17:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5552B0.7A269E91@goingware.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 04:50:56 +0000 From: "Michael D. Crawford" Organization: GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-prerelease-ac5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: You've Been Slashdotted Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I gather from the combination of what I read on Slashdot and what folks replied here that the mirrors are actually lightly loaded, but Slashdot readers don't know about them because they couldn't read the home page at http://www.kernel.org that directed them to the mirror list. So I posted the algorithm for calculating the URL to your nearest mirror on Slashdot. Maybe that'll help some Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/