[2012-02-14 11:20:58 +0900] Nicholas MIller:

Did I miss an announcement?

That discussion: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-February/022530.... [2012-02-14 10:06:49 +0800] Abdul Halim Mat Ali:

Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that one mirror using FTP.

They have HTTP mirrors for other things; maybe they can be convinced to do that for Arch too. See: http://www.oss.eznetsols.org/

So, I don't see a point on remove the ftp mirrors.

The discussion I link to above explains the point you're not seeing. -- Gaetan

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, gt wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:06:49AM +0800, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote:

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I don't find download small files is slow especially when the mirror is at your country. Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that one mirror using FTP.

Arch-devs. Kindly do not delete FTP from the list. The mirrors list are user config and not everybody use the same mirror and it is up to us to use which mirror. So, I don't see a point on remove the ftp mirrors.

Well i would like to point out that, you have indonesia, taiwan, japan servers near you. And they support http. Japan's jaist.ac.jp is one of the best servers i have tried.

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gt. None is as fast as my country mirror. I have already inform mirror-admin@oss.eznetsols.org. Hopefully, they will do something. Meanwhile, Arch-devs, kindly do not push the mirror list to remove the FTP mirrors so soon. :-) Regards. Halim

On 02/14/2012 07:31 AM, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote:

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gt. None is as fast as my country mirror. I have already inform mirror-admin@oss.eznetsols.org. Hopefully, they will do something. Meanwhile, Arch-devs, kindly do not push the mirror list to remove the FTP mirrors so soon. :-)

Regards. Halim

BTW, Arch-devs. I wonder how does the mirror admin contact you directly on the mirrorlist issue?

we have a arch-mirrors mailing list -- Ionuț