Bill Nottingham wrote:
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
>> You're not doing this *before they get a chance to help*, effectively
>> saying they're a second class delivery method for their users. What's
>> the point of them mirroring for their users if their users are going
>> to use their bandwidth to try and jump on a torrent earlier?
> I don't know what you mean by "their users" but if it is say a
> university then they can make it available in their LAN when they have
> the bits and not to the entire world for initial few days before the
> announcement.
>
> What? You're expecting every mirror to reconfigure special access rules
>> based on IP ranges or domain names just because you want to torrent ISOs
>> early? How is that at all practical or sensible?
> You misunderstood. See above.
No, I didn't. That comment still applies *exactly the same*. And if you
don't understand that, I'm not sure why I'm having this discussion.
Gee,
Somehow this reminds me of a discussion me and Ralf had with Rahul about a week
ago. I believe I made a comment much like this one. Anyone else see a pattern here?
Regards,
Hans
p.s.
Rahul,
When I saw the Fedora 7 Faq on the wiki I thought "good work!", so please
don't
think I do not appreciate your contributions, really I do, but ... (that has al
already been said).
Talking about the Fedora 7 Faq, each time I want to reference it I type "Fedora
7 Faq" in google, as I can't find it through the wiki. Maybe there should be a
link on the frontpage, or atleast under the
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ
page, as that is were you go if you press the FAQs link on the mainpage.