On 27 Jan 2006, at 02:00, Constantine Dokolas wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: >> On 26 Jan 2006, at 10:59, Joel Salomon wrote: >>> On 1/26/06, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: >>>> Basically, what we need are volunteers for mirroring - we could set >>>> up an automatic mirroring system, where we have a list of mirrors, >>>> and downloads.freenetproject.org will do a round-robin between >>>> them. >>>> Also, downloads.freenetproject.org will automatically ssh into each >>>> of the mirrors whenever a new file becomes available to upload them >>>> over scp. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Bittorrent? >> >> Requiring the user to download a P2P app in order to get our P2P >> app is >> a bit silly, by that argument we may as well use Dijjer. > > Actually, the smallest bittorrent client I've seen (also a pretty good > download manager) is Retriever (Java required): > http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
This whole BitTorrent thing is distracting people from the important point: We need people to offer web-space so that we can offer HTTP downloads. So far, only one person has responded usefully in this vein. The conversation about BitTorrent is orthogonal to that. Ian.
