No, it appears to be mandatory.  The principal ftp service being off the
last couple weeks hasn't helped me either.

When will these policies be pushed out to the mirror sites?

peter


on 12/13/02 10:24 AM, Matthias Scheler at tron@zhadum.de wrote:

> In article <20021213162056.4CC40B@proven.weird.com>,
> woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>>> Because you want to make sure that you get your new sources from the
>>> real NetBSD anonymous CVS server and not some other server. SSH's
>>> host key management system will take care of that.
>> and so then you'll be getting rid of the FTP server too, right?  :-)
> 
> Using Anonymous CVS over SSH is an option. It is not mandatory.
> 
> Kind regards