Re: Bittorrent Mirror - apple.cabi.net

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Bill Garber wrote:

> 
> "Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com> wrote in message
> 1155840242.528979.253060@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com">news:1155840242.528979.253060@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> : All,
> :
> : This is totally awesome. I'll get my bittorrent client up when I get
> : home tonight and leave it going.
> :
> : The more torrents the better of all that stuff. It sure beats making
> : DVDs and mailing them around...
> :
> : -Warr
> 
> I don't agree, I'd rather have a disk than tie up my computer
> downloading a "torrent" of data I may NEVER get to use. Oh well,
> I'll check it out anyway, and I appreciate your effort for those
> who don't mind.
> 
> Bill

You could always download overnight and then burn it to DVD ;-)

I think torrents are great for this sort of thing... I'd like to host huge
amounts of files on my web server, but the problem is that there's always
someone leeching the whole site and hammering the bandwidth... still, it
would be nice if someone could host all this stuff on an ftp or web server
for those who just want the odd file here and there... 
-s

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