[Manifold-l] Advance access to new update - a technology preview

[Dimitri Rotow]

>     Don't doubt it at all.  Two different machines; 6 hours 
> apart; same result.  I'll wait for the real thing.  Linus
> 

Same internet link by any chance? Same ISP? Same proxy server? Some people
will rig up gateways or proxy servers to cache transfers.  So if you hit the
same URL it returns the same content (the idea is to save bandwidth by not
re-fetching something that's already been fetched).  That's fine unless the
transmission was damaged before it got to the cache, in which case you
simply get the damaged cache.  That will happen to anything downstream of
the cache regardless of when or where the URL is hit.  No doubt people more
familiar with Internet innards can suggest other scenarios.  

In the meantime, I assure you that what I wrote in my previous posting is
indeed correct, that very many other people have downloaded exactly that
same file without difficulty.