FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
traditional xbiff. In addition, if you click on the hbiff icon, a window
will popup showing the mail headers. This makes hbiff better than xlbiff
where privacy is an issue since the headers are only displayed when you
request.