Regarding bandwidth usage: it's good to know, perhaps it'd be no trouble to leave it public. Still, I'd like people to make friends before, or even by asking for this, if only because then I'd know that the trouble to set it up wouldn't have been for nothing. I know that in itself is no big trouble after all, and I'm not making one a favour either, but as I've said above, I have no love whatsoever for anonymouses.

Besides, if no one cares enough to ask, then on one hand it would have made no sense to make it public after all, while on the other, I hope that it might encourage a few to try and replicate the experiment in this article.

Thanks for the offer, but I have my own mirror of the Gentoo which I actually use. Presently I am not using Debian anywhere.

For other folks (who actually use Debian..) I suppose you could put up a passworded thing.

FWIW my Gentoo mirror thus far hasn't cost me appreciable BW. Several (unknown) folks grabbed the whole thing; a few added it to their portage config and occasionally fetch packages. But this hasn't added up to backbreaking load.

Stan, I would really like to share this with my L1 somehow, but I don't want to make it available to the Internet at large. I can see how this sorta makes me a jerk, except once in a while I open my various logs and mailboxes and see how "the Internet at large" tries to break into my machines, fill them with spam and so on and so forth. This gives me no faith in that "old Internet vibe", so hell no, I won't help the various randos do whatever it is they're doing. Besides, it's not like this is any secret, they can mirror the official archives while those are up, I suppose I'm already doing the WWW a great service by posting the recipe on a site without ads, JS and other diseases.

If you're interested, I guess I can GPG you a tar of the repository, or upload the archive to one of your machines, or some other alternative you think might work. Let me know if you are.