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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""> That's the other big issue: Geolocation ...
CTAN's mirror redirector software was written ages ago, by an
author who is now long dead.
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I don't know who that author was, but given that almost the entire TeX community benefits from his/her work, I would personally prefer that the above be expressed as "... was written long ago by XXX YYY who is sadly no longer with us but to whom we owe a very
great debt of gratitude".<br>
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</i><i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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