I keep hearing and reading about the huge amount of open requests in the Free Media program. I was wondering whether a deeper nexus between the ambassadors and the mirror administrators would help to improve the situation. We can have an arrangement where after every stable release the mirrors admins send snapshots of their mirrors to some "select" ambassadors. These ambassadors can then re-distribute the content further down the tree. Most amabassadors are volunteers and may be bandwidth constrained. So it might be cheaper to send a snapshot in 3-4 DVDs via snail mail than having to do the equivalent amount of downloading. In case the media request has originated from a place geograhically close to a mirror, the ambassadors can simply redirect them to the relevant mirror facility. Someday one can extend this to the idea of getting seed content for new mirrors from pre-existing ones. Comments? Cheers, Debarshi -- "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -- Arthur Ashe