> The distributor list is very open: it's an unmoderated list.
> Basically, that means it's a spam bucket. To make it not so, I would
> like to change it to a discuss list and have you and me as moderators
> (or you, someone else, someone else).
> That will limit all or nearly all spam and is a neater solution
> than creating a new list with similar configurations....
I've been offering to help moderate it. The spam was getting to be
ridiculous for a while.
The Google group is nice. It does seem simpler to keep the old list tho if
we can eliminate/cut down spam.
Here's 2 posts from the Google group since people probably didn't see em:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:13:15 -0800
Local: Tues, Jan 31 2006 1:13 pm
Subject: To carry over a few threads...
A few people want to make P2P more prominent on the download page. On
the third dropdown ('Select your download site'), couldn't we add a
link to the .torrent at the top like ***BitTorrent P2P download***?
Maybe give a little more information so only people that know what
they're doing use it. I don't see what the difference is between a link
for the install file or a link to the .torrent.
Is there no way to do a diff update from 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2 like in Firefox
1.5 now? It seems like a big bandwidth waste downloading 80-100 megs
for an update.
Adrian Macneil
From: Adrian Macneil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:42:17 +1300
Local: Tues, Jan 31 2006 9:42 pm
Subject: Re: [openofficeorg-distro-dev] To carry over a few threads...
On 01/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few people want to make P2P more prominent on the download page. On
> the third dropdown ('Select your download site'), couldn't we add a
> link to the .torrent at the top like ***BitTorrent P2P download***?
> Maybe give a little more information so only people that know what
> they're doing use it. I don't see what the difference is between a link
> for the install file or a link to the .torrent.
This should be possible, although if we are going to follow that method then
I would like to include the magnet and ed2k links as well. But why does the
main download page not have a random mirror script anyway? Then we could
just say 'Select your download method' and give the options Http, Ftp,
Torrent, Magnet, Ed2k.
How easy this would be depends on how the mirror list is maintained (which I
do not know). If it is automated then it could be tricky, but if it is just
a manual list then we could easily add the torrent files, and treat them as
a seperate mirror, and the magnet and ed2k links could be added as well,
since they are still legal URI's.
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