Re: List of mirrors - help needed

Bram Moolenaar:

> The ftp protocol is slowly fading away. Still, we provide
> the Vim sources through ftp.

Anonymous FTP is great. It means I can download software
without a bloated browser that updates once a week. And it
does not force me to upgrade my software, then the OS, then
the PC, simply to keep abrest with the constant development
of new protocols and APIs. I can access FTP archives with
the same software that I used twenty years ago, which will
continue to work in another twenty years. A stable
data-exchage protocol is a blessing.

> I would like someone to take the current list, remove the
> links that no longer work, and find more https links.

Many https: links no longer work for me in Windows XP. Is
there any reason for providing public software via HTTPS?

Anyway, please keep the FTP and HTTP mirrors, in addition
to the HTTPS ones.

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