[Python-Dev] www.python.org is back!

Steven D. Majewski sdm7g@Virginia.EDU
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:19:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Tim Peters wrote:

> > The Python sites http://www.python.org and ftp://ftp.python.org are
> > back up, thanks to the energetic help of Thomas Wouters and XS4ALL
> > (the dutch ISP that's his employer).
> 
> Not only up, but my response time browsing python.org is dramatically faster
> going to the Netherlands than to CNRI down the street.  Downloads are much
> zippier too.  Sweet.

Is the Netherlands spinward or anti-spinward from your location with 
respect to the earth's rotation?  I think you are 'down spin' . 
How about from CNRI ?  That might explain it:  less friction on the
electrons flowing spinward. 

Waiting for my Nobel Prize! 

-- Steve