Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 14, 2004 @09:07PM from the no-kernels-for-you dept.

KingDaveRa writes "It would seem that the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (www.jisc.ac.uk) have decided to withdraw funding from the www.mirror.ac.uk service. They still want to run a service, but '...perhaps on a smaller scale, and limited to the most popular mirrors. This would, however, depend upon securing sponsorship or alternative funding very quickly, and the approval of our host institutions.' This could turn out to be quite an inconvenience for the UK, as the mirror.ac.uk service has proven itself very fast and reliable."

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Re:Email address by kunudo · 2004-05-15 02:26 · Score: 0, Troll

to: info@jisc.ac.uk
from: random@guy.com
subject: beer

Dear maker of free beer. I noticed you said you can't spend any more money on free beer for everybody and are going to stop giving it away. I am MOST DISPLEASED WITH THIS. It is your duty to provide everyone with free beer.

Be happy it lasted, don't bitch about it. Some new great mirror will pop up in a short time, meanwhile, there are others.