Where all that can be downloaded using wget or curl or axel is corrupted files that can't verify once downloaded it gets necessary to use torrents to get what files are available at any time. If organizations want to keep torrents available, they could check for available seeds and when no more seeds are available as happened with several torrents re-announce and start seeding again. I suspect such a three-part process could be automated by a software package yet to be written and released. The slint torrent is no longer alive and accessible coconut torrent is another one no longer alive. When I get a torrent downloaded I try seeding for a while afterwards but do so putting the torrent application in the background. As I write this I have a ubuntu desktop 64 seeding in the background since last night. When I do torrents I use: transmission-cli -b -D -er -m -U -v torrent The -er parameter and -v parameters are both very important since they require encrypted stuff be sent to you and the -v parameter verifies everything you send out. That means you get the best quality torrent and send the best quality torrent. I'm not sure about the advantages of using -m for port map forwarding and the -b for blocklists since those may have to be downloaded and installed separately and I don't know how to do that just yet. The -D and -U parameters place no limits on download and upload speeds. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.