Finally broke down and did it

[cgutjahr]

I mirrored all of aminet.net locally.

Which is considered abuse by the Aminet team.

It's not "cool", it's stupid.

(especially when it goes down for some unknown reason).

Aminet consists of eight public and two private mirrors, plus archive.org is about to become an official mirror.

[cgutjahr]

If it's stupid, then why do they host an rsync service open to anyone?

"They" is me, genius.

[cgutjahr]

so we shouldn't do this ?

Wow, just wow. The guy running Aminet is telling you that downloading the entire archive is considered abuse - and in return he gets a bunch of middle fingers?

Impressive conduct.