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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Bob Keyes <bob at sinister.com> wrote: > Indeed it is. I'd like to see it integrated into the web browser. I > think that things that tend to cause net log-jams (just as a new > kernel release) should FIRST be put on bittorrent. > > Can you imagine what bittorrent could do on a large lan, that had a > small upstream? Say, some large university remote and poor enough to > have a crappy Internet connection. > > Something to be aware of: the original bittorrent client got messy if > it ran out of disk space. Bad error handling. I think there is a double edged sword. Within a large LAN it makes the distribution of a software product more efficient, but once you start pushing stuff out of the LAN then you could wind up with a mess. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040418/6b3bec05/attachment.sig>
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