Re: LYNX-DEV Binary distribution: an evaluation.

[Al Gilman]

Actually, after taking some flak from name bigots like me, I suspect
that y'all with the SysOp experience can work this out better.  But
I did want to make another observation:

  From: Michael Richardson <address@hidden>
  
    We'd know about it... 
    I could be ftp.istar.browser.org, cause I'm connected to istar (one
  nation wide NSP). Russ could be ftp.onet.browser.org cause he will be
  moving to an ONet (a regional portion of another NSP) connected ISP.
    Maybe, we'll eventually get that WaveLan going between the bunch of
  us. Our offices are only 1km apart.
  
If the names are

        ftp1.ottawa-ca.browser.org
        ftp2.ottawa-ca.browser.org

we haven't helped the person in Guelph figure out which of 
these two is going to be quicker.  But when the alternatives are

        ftp.barbados.browser.org #deprecated
        ftp.denmark.browser.org
        ...

I think that the subscriber in Chicoutimi can guess to try one of
the Ottawa sites and not Barbados.  

Ishtar vs. Onet helps the expert achieve the last degree of fine
tuning.  But it leaves the novice in the dark.  ontario-ca lets
the newbie make the first step.  Maybe we want instructions for
running a timed ping on the foot of the ftp archive listing page.

We still have the option to put clues for site selection in plain
HTML text on the Web pages listing server offerings.

Al Gilman
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