From: solworth@newyork.eecs.uic.edu (Jon Solworth) Subject: SLS ftp distribution Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 01:27:46 GMT
> A new SLS release is stored in some hidden directory by Peter. Then Peter
> (or somebody else) mails all SLS mirror maintainers a notice saying that a
> new release is available. These maintainers start their SLS mirroring as soon
> as possible and reply to Peter when everything is finished. After two days
> Peter can announce the new SLS release together with a (large) list of sites
> (sorted by country/continent) which have responded with `mirror ready here'.
An easier way of doing this is for Peter's site to be the original, and
have only mirrors (including tsx-11) access Peter's site.