From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200311042037.hA4KbR303674@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [CORE] Bittorrent?
In-Reply-To: <200311041213.34355.josh@agliodbs.com>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:37:27 -0500 (EST)
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org, pgsql-core@postgresql.org
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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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