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From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R4 Distribution; EXPO is the LEAST efficient place to get the distribution.
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Date: 3 Jan 90 22:14:30 GMT
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Reply-To: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
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Hey, folks, if you are smart, you'll go to any machine BUT EXPO to get
the X distribution.  It is
likely to have the poorest performance of any site.

EXPO is an interior machine at MIT; the other sites are all logically
closer to you than EXPO.

For example:

crl.dec.com is directly on NEARNET.
Gatekeeper.dec.com is directly on BARNET.

In addition, EXPO now limits the number of incoming FTP connections.

Jim Gettys
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Laboratory