On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:10:08PM -0400, Jason Webber wrote: > Jeff: > > Has anyone thought about bittorrent? You could have a central > > tracker, but if I digitize a speech, I can throw it up on > > bittorrrent, submit it to the tracker, somebody verifies that that's > > what it is, and then it gets swarmed around. Not great for streaming > > stuff, admittedly, since it gets downloaded in random chunks. > > Bittorrent might be a bit above the understanding of the general user > (ie, Jane). While I think the theory of Bittorent is great, the > execution of it leaves something to be desired, at least at this point. > ;)
Well, if we can't get not-top-posting right... :-) Yeah, torrent is a bit much. But, as I noted, I don't think that's necessarily true of G-net. Chers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c
