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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: ANNOUNCE: KDE 2.0 Beta 4
From:       dep <dep () snet ! net>
Date:       2000-08-24 2:29:50
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
| I too was having trouble downloading at ftp.kde.org , but it seems
| what ever problem is effecting it doesn't effect ftp.us.kde.org .
| Perhaps you will find your nearest mirror has the problem solved
| too.

i believe there was an announcement a couple of weeks ago about it 
now being recommended that http transfers be made instead. yup, here 
it is:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Martin Konold wrote:
> Dear KDE Enthusiasts,
> 
> Due to the still exponentially increasing number of KDE downloads I 
decided 
> to add the possibility to use the http protocoll for downloading 
files from 
> ftp.kde.org.
> 
> The http protocol is compared to ftp protocol more lightweigth and 
helps us 
> to serve you even faster.
> 
> I therefor recommend to use
> 
>        http://ftp.kde.org 
> 
> instead of
> 
>        ftp://ftp.kde.org
> 
> in the future.
> 
> Yours,
> -- martin
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