Hi Greg, today I stumbled over these files in your CPAN directory:
% ls -l /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/*.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1521585 Dec 27 22:07 /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/basic_license.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2311621 Dec 27 22:07 /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/exchanges.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2311621 Dec 27 22:07 /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/ip_spectrum.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1616505 Dec 27 22:09 /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/ip_timeline.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2311621 Dec 27 22:10 /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/limit_public_good.png You should know that we quite frequently get requests both from CPAN mirror sites and from people producing CDROMs as well as from individuals that we should do something to keep CPAN manageable in size. I'm tempted to put these five files in the categories Oversized and Maybe-Off-Topic. I wouldn't much mind the latter but the sheer size of the files is indeed a burden for the whole CPAN. Could you probably spend a few minutes to produce some fine ASCII charts or maybe find some other solution how to distribute these files? Thanks! -- andreas
