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.
Bill