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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CORE] Bittorrent?
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:37:27 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> > If I'm reading the FAQ/Documentation correctly ... and I may not be
> > understanding it completely after a admittedly quick pursual ... it sounds
> > like a 'napster for files', with ppl uploading to our servers, as well as
> > downloading from it?
> 
> Yes, but they're OSS-friendly, popular, and several members of our community 
> already use Bitorrent.  Among other things, Linux kernels get distributed 
> over it.  It uses the p2p network to bypass bottlenecks at certain ftp sites, 
> allowing you to stream the same download from 2-5 sites simultaneosly and 
> saturate your download bandwidth.
> 
> 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.

What if someone adds a trojan to the source and puts it on Bitorrent? 
Doesn't seem like something we should do lightly.

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