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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel.org frontpage
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:54:34 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <200301291920.h0TJKF4K007454@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> from "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" at Jan 29, 2003 02:20:15 PM
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> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:14:43 GMT, John Bradford said:
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> > I see what you mean, but I don't see how it makes it any less useful
> > to have them on the front page - if you download the latest kernel
> > patch from a mirror, you could then just click on the relevant link on
> > the front page of kernel.org - infact, as http access to kernel.org is
> > frequently much slower than ftp, it might actually be very useful,
> > because anybody downloading via http would make two requests, (OK,
> > about 7, because of the images on the front page), instead of about
> > 13, if they traverse each directory to the .sign file.
> 
> I was arguing that they *should* be on the front page, since they *are*
> useful and it *would* lower the number of requests.

Sorry, I'd deleted the original message, and didn't want to break the
thread :-)

John.
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