X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A657FD1CA04; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:53:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69299-09; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:53:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1D0D1CAE0; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:52:30 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B656C35D00; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:51:25 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76F135B54; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:51:25 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:51:25 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai Cc: Josh Berkus , "Marc G. Fournier" , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, pgsql-core@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [CORE] Bittorrent? In-Reply-To: <20031104204950.GN11295@nexus.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: <20031104165103.R24889@ganymede.hub.org> References: <200311041155.10979.josh@agliodbs.com> <20031104160641.Y24889@ganymede.hub.org> <200311041213.34355.josh@agliodbs.com> <20031104204950.GN11295@nexus.ninth-circle.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/15 X-Sequence-Number: 2662 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > -On [20031104 21:22], Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote: > >I don't think we necessarily need to host a Bitorrent server at hub.org; I'm > >not clear on how joining bitorrent works, really. I'll ask one of the > >current users. > > You just take an official tarball, put it in your share folder and 'seed > it' as the torrent community calls it, that is, you spread the hash on > the file for people to add to their torrent download list. > > Principle is the same as with SoulSeek, KaZaA, Edonkey, etc... Ya, but we don't distribute on those either :)