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Nigel Ridley nigel at rmk.co.il
Sat Oct 7 18:19:10 UTC 2006


Thilo Six wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote the following on 07.10.2006 16:46:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>   deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
> 
> It isnĀ“t an solution to point every Ubuntu user worldwide to the master
> mirror, do you think?

Thylo, I didn't point him to any server - I just posted a copy of my 
sources.list.
I do however remember having a 'local' server list but am sure that it 
just was an alias for the master mirror as when I was upgrading it was 
downloading from the master rather than my 'local' mirror.

> Even if when http://il.archive.ubuntu.com would have problems (which is
> not the case - see my other mail) it would be a better idea to point the
> user to an other close mirror instead.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive
> 
> Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Germany
> 
> any of these mirrors would be better (for all users) the the master
> mirror IMHO.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> (watch the line wraps from the email client!)
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
> 
> 
> bye Thilo
> 
> 

Blessings,

Nigel

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