> <rant> > BT is a really cool idea, but a) it sucks during the Slashdot effect, > despite everyone thinking it's supposed to cure it, because you may > get ten thousand peers, but if all of you only have the first 2% of > the file, no one gets anywhere because the seed system is /.'d anyway, > and b) it sucks 2 days after the file was cool, because there are only > two or three die-hard BT'ers still running their clients, so your > economies of scale are all gone. > > BT would work way better if people were generally more willing to > share their bandwidth, but since bandwidth costs, no one shares. Sad, > really. > </rant>
Which is why people like Jesse trying to convince other members of the group to get on BitTorrent might be cool, we could have our own cluster of Torrent peers. It would sure make spreading distros around the group a lot easier. I'm game... once I get set up and running. Jarrod _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
