Having a copy of .torrent in the /iso dir

Brian Gerst bgerst at didntduck.org
Tue Jul 5 21:26:19 UTC 2005


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 7/5/05, Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:28 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/5/05, Richard June <rjune at bravegnuworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I gotta say, I *LIKE* that plan.
>>>>you want fedora for the first few days, great. get the torrent.
>>>
>>>Thats very short sighted. Not everyone lives on a network that is
>>>friendly to torrent activity.
>>
>>They can wait a week.
> 
> 
> But the won't wait. Just like the god damn morons who sneak out a
> torrent from an unlocked mirrors don't wait.  As soon as its in the
> wild in any way shape or form.. people are going to mirror it in a way
> that works best for them.  That means rsync and ftp and http mirrors
> will spring up as soon as possible to fill the need.  

If people set up their own mirrors it's their bandwidth, their problem. 
  Why do we care?

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				Brian Gerst




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