Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Hunter Peress <hfastjava@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 Message-ID: <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030123195701.GH60077@rot13.obsecurity.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:57, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > So: > > I understand, its just that we can't do anything but publicize it. We REALLY wish > > that the community could throw 10,000+ people at the torrent...you can see from the > > original email i sent to the list that this amount has been done, but only for > > illegitimate files. (technically it was 12,000 x 3.1 GB of LOTR2 yes, thats 36 TB > > in one day, and guess how much the server served out of that? 0 bits and 0 $$ ). > > Steps to getting the community to use this: > > 1) Make a working port. I tried to port bittorrent once, but > something (don't remember what) failed to compile. BT is in python and hence requires no compilation. MAYBE you are talking about wxpython, which requires wxwindows and that might be where your error was. Anyway, as I replied to someone on *this* list, initially, there is no need to make the GUI (through wx) work. Rather, you can just release the package so that at least the pure python UI's (like btdownloadheadless.py) can work. > > 2) Post to FreeBSD lists to announce your BT mirror when releases are > made. Mention why people might want to try it this way instead of > using ftp which they already understand and love. That IS exactly what I did, that is exactly why you are responding to me right now. This current email that I am writing is part of a thread that was started for this exact purpose. As you can see, this is very much like the chicken and the egg. Therefore, in order to get out of this cycle, other things need to be done. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030123202001.51397.qmail>