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- Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 14-Apr-93 Re: Project Gutenberg's Rog..
- Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl (1149)
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- > A list of URL's might work in some cases, but in general this means
- > that adding a new mirror site requires updating all references...
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- Yes, and in addition, it means that choosing an appropriate URL is up to
- some client heuristics. However, it does have the merit of not
- requiring a round-trip conversation with the name service, which is
- important to us. I think the suggestion of having some kind of
- meta-URL, which could be interpreted locally, would also merit more
- thought. Some sort of macrology like imake uses (ugh :-). This would
- solve some of the problems of a static list, without necessarily
- requiring name service round trips.
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- Bill
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