On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Dwight Hughes wrote:
It would get a bit confusing if others sent [UPDATE] or [UPDATES] messages since one expects to be able to use the "update from server" mechanism in Squeak to retrieve any [UPDATES].
That was the initial intent of Dan's [UPDATE] prefix - to allow a mirror to fetch the updates asap. For example, I set up our mirror to check nightly for new updates, but the list is also grepped for an [UPDATE] without a "Re:" so the fetching starts immediately. Works fine (although the ftp-access seems to have gone so currently http-mirroring is used).
/bert