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- From: jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
- Subject: archie geographical intelligence?
- Message-ID: <JONATHAN.92Dec11220406@speedy.cs.pitt.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 03:04:06 GMT
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- Organization: University of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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- Every time I use archie, I am amazed at (i) how very useful it is, and
- (ii) how geographically stupid it is. It generally makese sense to
- use archives that are net-wise close to oneself. Yet archie gives me
- many site-references in Europe, Japan, Australia, etc in addition to
- US sites. And I'm sure my friends in Sydney and Munich don't care to
- use US sites any more than I want to use mine.
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- Is there any way to limit archie's search only to "close" sites? If
- it's in TFM, I haven't found it. I can hack a script to filter out
- distant sites, but it seems to me archie would work faster, handle
- more requests, and be more useful were there a built-in 'give me only
- local sites' option. This could be simply based on country-codes and
- still be right most of the time. Thoughts?
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- jse
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