Ken Stone <ken@sdd.hp.com> writes: > Hey Julian ... > > Why are the permissions almost all 400 in /pub/nntpcache ? Even the README > file is unreadable ? > > Thanks The readme file should most definately have been readable. As for the rest. ftp.nntpcache.org is polled by a large number of totally broken mirror programs, which contiually fetch every file regardless as to whether it has been updated or not. I disabled access to the non-stable development versions in order to prevent these severely bozotic mirrors eating away all nntpcache.org's bandwidth. I The unreadable tarballs were kept so people who really needed them would realise that they still existed (and ask about them accordingly). Cheers, Julian. -- Stefan Kahrs in [Kah96] discusses the notion of completeness--programs which never go wrong can be type-checked--which complements Milner's notion of soundness--type-checked programs never go wrong [Mil78].
