> The readme file should most definately have been readable. That makes sense .... > 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). I hope mine wasn't one of the "totally broken" ones .... I watch the output and about the only thing I have seen lately that didn't look like regular small changes were the errors I'm seeing now ... Would you rather I didn't mirror ? If so, then I'll turn it off. -- Ken