On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:28 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 7/5/05, Richard June <rjune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I gotta say, I *LIKE* that plan. > > you want fedora for the first few days, great. get the torrent. > > Thats very short sighted. Not everyone lives on a network that is > friendly to torrent activity. They can wait a week. > I'm pretty sure that some of the official mirrors would much rather > see the users inside their local networks consume from a locally > available mirror than to waste bandwidth across the network boundary > to the outside world pulling from and pushing to torrent peers out in > the wild. Those admins can set access controls on their FTP servers. > What exactly is the point of making life more difficult for > the admins of large networks who are volunteering to mirror fedora and > allow some public access? I very much doubt you would get all the > mirrors to agree to wait. They wait already. > Even if by some miracle all those > 'official' mirrors do wait... other people who get the torrent will > open mirrors regardless. That's OK for them, the purpose of this exercise is to decrease the stress on official mirrors, not prevent the propagation of Fedora. -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
