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Subject: Re: New site - minor problem
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:15:44 -0000
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Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] New site - minor problem
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
	"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>, <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hansen [mailto:john@geeknet.com.au]=20
> Sent: 06 December 2004 22:09
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Gavin M. Roy; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] New site - minor problem
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> > No, that's the point. All the mirrors would be selected on=20
> the master=20
> > server, giving a single point of failure. I'm far from=20
> convinced that=20
> > it's worth it. The *only* benefit to users is that the=20
> flags for their=20
> > country would be shown seperately on the mirror selection pages,=20
> > saving them may 2 seconds to spot their flag in the main grid.
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> In that case I vote to send that idea to the trash can..... :)
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> Unless mirrors are prepared to perform the ip2ccode lokups...

No, we keep them pure HTML for simplicity.

> Single point of failure kinda defeats the purpose I reckon.

Yup, my feelings precisely.

/D