Re: setting up mirrors

["Ruchir Tewari" <ruchir_tewari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How would one ensure that such a facility is not misused by the
maintainers? What kind of accountability could one ensure? And how?
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What exactly are you trying to say. If anybody decides to host
a server, they are doing you a service. Why and how would they
themselves misuse it ?  If it's at an ISP or a university
or a techie insitute, there will probabaly be enough talent in
house to keep the server up and running.  For e.g the IITM
and the TIFR mirrors that were mentioned previously in this
thread. Our task is to find more of such good hearted souls to
set up additional mirrors all over the country.

If the talent is not available inhouse, some of the ILUG members
could volunteer to help out from time to time.

A 2 Mb outgoing pipe will be fantastic, especially if we can get
it at many different locations.

3 things need to be done

- list all the ways of setting up a mirror and come up with a doc
 and/or faq for doing so.

 Our friends in TIFR and IITM could pitch in.
 This'll probabaly be just a few pages long.

- list the sites and content that we are interested in getting
 mirrored.

- talk to the organizations mentioned before and any others,
 regarding the need of setting up more local mirrors in India
 and follow up with them.

- Ruchir


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