Re: FTP Mirrors (was Re: Rewriting the website)

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:46:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > ftp is beign mirrored to 103 sites ...
> >
> > Would it be possible to make the FTP mirrors all use the same
> > directory structure?  Currently, to pick random examples, we have
> >
> > ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/v7.4.1
> > ftp://ftp.it.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/v7.4.1
> > ftp://ftp.fr.postgresql.org/v7.4.1
> > ftp://ftp.au.postgresql.org/...? I can't even find it right away.
>
> I think the problem is that the people in charge don't always care
> about that.  For a very stupid example, see ftp.cl.postgresql.org
> where Postgres is located in the /pub/GNU dir, and it is the only
> subdir of it.  Isn't that silly?

If they don't care, don't let them be (official) mirrors.