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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:56:35 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
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> OK, there seems to be enough resistance to this to put it off for a year
> or two.  Since that means I don't have to do any work, that plan has
> inherent appeal to me.
> 
> In other words, the current setup will remain for now.  HOWEVER, I would
> like to recommend that mirror sites start carrying .bz2 files if they
> want to carry only one format.

Can we at least switch the default upload format to bz2? I would think
that's a reasonably simple change to the robot? For those of us
uploading stuff over a slow modem link, the extra efficiency would be
much appreciated.

M.

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