re bittorrent

[Matthias Buelow]

TM4526 at aol.com wrote:

> Of course anyone with an ISP that has a bandwidth management device,  
> bittorrent (a cancerous protocol which wastes others bandwdith in the process of 
> possibly saving yours) will likely either not work well or be very slow.
> 
> No reputable organization would promote bittorrant for getting a release.

Surely you can elaborate?  Bittorrent was explicitly designed for the 
very purpose it has been used with the FreeBSD ISOs (and other 
organizations are using it aswell, for example RedHat for Fedora Core, 
and it works very well.)

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   Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de