but many mirror sites don't pay per byte, and snapshots are very useful.
how about we split up the mirrorable stuff into multiple catagories,
such as "release", "current" and "everything".  these could map to

  release	- sources and binaries for official releases.
  current	- sources for -current
  everything	- the above, plus snapshots, etc

-Chuck



On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:49:29PM +0000, Andy Doran wrote:
> I think the argument against this is that some mirror sites pay for
> bandwidth on a you-have-sent-or-recieved-n-bytes basis. Frequently
> generating snapshots would raise their costs.
> 
> The offer is appreciated though.
> 
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, NetBSD Mailing list wrote:
> 
> > I have generally been keeping current and have a world built every
> > few days.  Is there much of a demand (ne desire) for snapshots
> > this frequently by anyone?  If so, I can make these available 
> > as I generate them on a weekly basis.
> > 
> > skots
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