maintaining british traditions

i am visiting the uk and wanted to cvsup.  i ran fastest_cvsup
and got

>>  Speed Daemons:
    - 1st: cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org
    - 2nd: cvsup.uk.freebsd.org
    - 3rd: cvsup2.uk.freebsd.org

so i started fetching from cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org with 

    *default tag=.

i was shocked when it started replacing just about everything so
hit ^C.  look at these lovely dates

    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     4735 Sep  5  1999 COPYRIGHT
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     3743 Feb  4  2003 MAINTAINERS
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     9578 Jan 29  2003 Makefile
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    25011 Feb  7  2003 Makefile.inc1
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     9751 Mar 19  2002 Makefile.upgrade
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     2790 Jul 21  2002 README
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    47743 Feb  9  2003 UPDATING

what is it in particular this time that i do not understand?

randy