Updating the Speakup archive

Updating the Speakup archive

[Tom Moore]

Hi guys.
Kirk and I are in the process of updating the Speakup archive and we'd like
to know what you guys think we should add / remove from the archive.
There is a lot of stuff on the servers that I believe is out of date and
might not be used much, but before it is removed we'd like to know if people
still need it.
Am example of this is the red hat directory for the old releases of Red Hat
Linux.
Should I pull down a copy of the speakupmodified.org site and include the
images for Fedora 6 in the archive?
Suggestions are welcome.

Tom

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Re: Updating the Speakup archive

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Tom:

You're certainly welcome to mirror files from speakupmodified.org. That
might well be helpful given the Speakup mirrors in Florida and
Wisconsin though, in truth, we have access to an aggregate bandwidth of
19.2 gbps at speakupmodified.org.

Please do not remove the redhat or the fedora directories, as there are
still direct href pointers to these in various documents out on the net.
Rather, we would appreciate Apache redirects to speakupmodified.org for
any access to these directories. I believe the permanent redirect would
belong in /etc/apache2, directly above the redirects to Wisconsin. In
any case, the .html files I've recently put in these directories also
point users to speakupmodified.org, though doing this in Apache is
cleaner and more comprehensivily successful.

Janina

Tom Moore writes:
> Hi guys.
> Kirk and I are in the process of updating the Speakup archive and we'd like
> to know what you guys think we should add / remove from the archive.
> There is a lot of stuff on the servers that I believe is out of date and
> might not be used much, but before it is removed we'd like to know if people
> still need it.
> Am example of this is the red hat directory for the old releases of Red Hat
> Linux.
> Should I pull down a copy of the speakupmodified.org site and include the
> images for Fedora 6 in the archive?
> Suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Tom
> 
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Re: Updating the Speakup archive

[Kirk Reiser]

Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> writes:

> Hi, Tom:
> 
> You're certainly welcome to mirror files from speakupmodified.org. That
> 
> Please do not remove the redhat or the fedora directories, as there are
> still direct href pointers to these in various documents out on the net.
> Rather, we would appreciate Apache redirects to speakupmodified.org for
> any access to these directories. I believe the permanent redirect would


Speakupmodified.org should really be a mirror of linux-speakup.org
rather than a totally seperate tree.  Folks that get their material
such as ftp or rsync will not get the same archive as http while it is
not the actual mirror of the repository.  You could always upload your
files seperately rather than uploading and then mirroring but the
apache redirects are only useful in a limited way from a site
mirroring perspective.  If the site is properly mirrored then peoples
downloading experience will be consistant across transfer managers.
Hi bandwidth is good for folks that have good connectivity but for
users of slower connections it is not so much as important.

  Kirk

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