docs/98737: diff for mirrors.xml (add new ukrainian mirrors and remove broken)

[Maxim Konovalov]

The following reply was made to PR docs/98737; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
To: Alex Samorukov <samm at os2.kiev.ua>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/98737: diff for mirrors.xml (add new ukrainian mirrors and
 remove broken)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:37:10 +0400 (MSD)

 On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, 15:18+0300, Alex Samorukov wrote:
 
 > Maxim Konovalov wrote:
 > > > Why not? User can list them and than make a choice.
 > > >
 > >
 > > Sure, user can list any random ftp in the Internet and then make a
 > > choice :-)
 > >
 > Ok. But random ftp will not be located in Ukraine and will not
 > include freebsd tree at all :-). Anyway, if you think that its not
 > correct to put mirrors with limited subtree on a list - please,
 > simply remove them. BTW, russian ftp mirrors has some problems too -
 > look at the
 > http://mainroad.org.ua/ruftp/ and then to
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-RU-FTP
 
 Nice chart.  Btw Jun Kuriyama has something similar:
 
 http://people.freebsd.org/~kuriyama/mirrors/
 
 > ftp1 is delisted, and ftp5 does not allow anonymous ftp connections.
 
 Yes, that's because ftp1.ru == ftp.ru, and I'm under impression Igor
 Timkin just doesn't want to list it twice.
 
 IIRC that was me who added ftp5.ru and I'll try to find its maintainer
 email address.  I have mostly idle ftp.mtu.ru so I could take ftp5.ru
 over.  Thanks for the report!
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov