From owner-freebsd-www Mon Jan 20 9:55:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6252537B40A for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC7043ED8 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <200301201755240030005ucqe>; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:55:24 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0KHtNA8088793; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0KHtJxi088792; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200301201755.h0KHtJxi088792@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20021120 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Hunter Peress Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 In-Reply-To: <1043043044.1274.42.camel@HillCountryPeress> References: <1043043044.1274.42.camel@HillCountryPeress> Comments: In-reply-to Hunter Peress message dated "20 Jan 2003 00:10:43 -0600." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1635906360P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:19 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_1635906360P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Hunter Peress wrote: > Hi, im on the BitTorrent team. (http://bitconjurer.org/bittorrent) > In one line: its a protocol and an implemenation for p2p sharing of > specific files; its not a search network. > > Everything is free AND open. > > We mirrored 5.0 AS SOON as it came out, but we didnt get any publicity. > ( http://tacos.sus.mcgill.ca/~hperes/BT_BSD5.0/ ). We posted a comment > on /. but it received little moderation. > > Unfortunately, BitTorrent is mainly being used by irc movie phreaks for > illegitimate causes. 12,000 torrents of a 3gb LOTR2 were served in one > day for example. > > BitTorrent is well tested for over a year, secure, and platform > independant. > > Please email me, or join us on irc.freenode.net #bittorent. We would > like you to put links of torrents on the freebsd webpage, not with the > intent of replacing anything, but simply in addition to. There is so > much value in doing this, you WILL see. Hi Hunter-- I hadn't heard of your project before but the Web pages look interesting! My first thought is that I'd like to see people (in the FreeBSD community) get a little more experience with BitTorrent before we announce it as a distribution mechanism. (Call me an old conservative stick-in-the mud...) But that doesn't prevent you from announcing it yourself. Maybe post a quick note to one or two of the FreeBSD mailing lists with the info you've given here? current@ would probably be appropriate and on-topic, since that's essentially the development branch that's most concerned with this. Also, (almost) nothing's off-topic for chat@. Cheers, Bruce. --==_Exmh_1635906360P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+LDgH2MoxcVugUsMRAvN6AKDsx6Qt/P5jRlRBZ0LFfpaeFsBUmACg9HQE T1/SDax4yG2T7A6LKpojh04= =ipwu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1635906360P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message