Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:19 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Hunter Peress <hu.peress@mail.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 Message-ID: <200301201755.h0KHtJxi088792@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <1043043044.1274.42.camel@HillCountryPeress> References: <1043043044.1274.42.camel@HillCountryPeress>
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--==_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
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