Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2007-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 December 2006 00:28, peter green wrote: > imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using > the manual entry option: those with enough knowlage of urls to > understand a request for a mirror url with an example and those being > told to do it explicitly by a loca

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
> For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For > them, the only really variable part they understand is the hostname, the > rest is goobleycook. > Feel free to try to convince me otherwise. imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using the manual

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 December 2006 16:20, peter green wrote: > wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port > (if such a question exists) and directory questions into a single > request for a mirror url? For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For them, t

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port (if such a question exists) and directory questions into a single request for a mirror url?