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From: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au>
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In the immortal words of Quinn Ellis <quinn1@gmx.de>...
> Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?

Distributed sources, this way FTP servers don't get as hammered if parts
of the download are coming from multiple sources.

Cheers

Tim

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