Mirror.ac.uk To Die

It appears that mirror.ac.uk is going to close down at the end of July.

The UK mirror service contract announcement says that the current service provided by Lancaster University and the University of Kent is too expensive and a new contract will be awarded by JISC from 1st August 2004.

The announcement says that mirroring will be available until July 31st but some sites may become unavailable if source sites request their mirror to be deleted.

I use mirror.ac.uk as my main CPAN mirror, so I'll certainly feel its loss as it's the fastest in the UK.