Re: UK3 Being Down and Replaced With New Mirror

To all: There were several messages sent to the list and myself personally regarding dropping UK3 and replacing it with a new maintainer - primarily from interested sponsors. While we do greatly appreciate it, what we - and I personally - would appreciate more would be if you would all pay attention to when I do the open calls for the mirrors waiting list. From this point forward, please DO NOT send unsolicited messages to offer to replace a mirror or recommend that an existing mirror be taken down due to downtime. We will make those decisions, and will delete and ignore all messages of this type in the future. WE will contact YOU, but ONLY if you are on the waiting list. Once again, if you'd like to offer your services and donate a mirror in a country that already has the maximum allowed by policy (two, up to a maximum of three per country, per our discretion), then please send a message to the list with the subject "CC Mirror Waiting List Application" (where 'CC' is the country code for which you are applying) or wait for the next open call, which I'm trying to do quarterly. As for the UK3 mirror, it is just fine, and there are no plans to replace it. It was down for a shorter period of time than mirrors operated by quite a few of you who are reading this very message! ;-P Again, we appreciate everyone's willingness to donate their bandwidth and services, but we cannot and will not reply to suggestions on who "should be removed" and/or any message similar to the "I am going set up new official UK mirror and you need to add me" email that I got in my inbox. Thanks again, as always, and happy Monday! -- </Daniel P. Brown> daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/