Last week after seeing a reference on bits, I read up on and installed Bram's bittorrent (and listened to some of the codecon mp3's). Today, as I was reading yet another slashdot thread where people were griping about not being able to read a slashdotted site, I thought of an idea to kickstart bittorrent usage.
Make a bittorrent-ed slashdot mirror. Have a web crawler mirror the /. front page, refreshing every hour or so. wget the sites linked in in the summary section of each front page post. Use some sane level of recursion, like -rl1 or -rl2 and some other sanity checks. Purge pages that are more than a day old. Make every link on the mirrored site a bittorrent file. Next time someone gets slashdotted, people can use the bittorrent mirror. This might induce slashdotters to install and use bittorrent, thus precipitating the revolution. What say you? If this looks like a good idea to you folks, I would be willing to kick in some coding, hardware and bandwidth. I run a number of servers on a T1 with pretty respectable uptimes (100s of days), and think I could justify the use of some of the U of C bandwidth since the goal of the project is to facilitate distribution of public information, and the load would be minimized by bittorrent. slashbit.org is available. JDH _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
