On 1/9/07, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We would also suggest people to avoid mirroring and/or bittorrenting of > these files: we would much rather trade bandwidth for more realistic > download stats of the data (which we are committed to make publicly > available).
While somewhat more work for yourselves, if you worry that users will adopt bittorrent to fetch the data quicker, you may set up your own bittorrent tracker and drop the .torrent file next to the data file itself. You get the same quality download statistics (if from a few more log files to scrape), those who so prefer get their preferred download method and no additional trackers pop up elsewhere. But asking nicely as above probably works about as well. -- / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
