From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 13:09:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C073616A400 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:09:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2552013C428 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:09:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 61013 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jan 2007 13:09:28 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.13?) (howie@thingy.com@212.21.124.49) by wotsit3.thingy.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 31 Jan 2007 13:09:28 +0000 Message-ID: <45C09500.6080103@thingy.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:09:20 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt , FreeBSD Questions References: <45BE469F.70001@mts.net><015f01c74512$af52b730$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <45C05615.9070301@u.washington.edu> <017501c74514$0e6793c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> In-Reply-To: <017501c74514$0e6793c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD Torrent Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:09:30 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > The FreeBSD server operators don't pay a dime for bandwidth and > if the bandwidth supplier for freebsd.org made the slightest complaint > about the bandwidth they are donating, there's a passel of ISP's and > networks that would fight each other for the chance of the feather in the > cap that hosting freebsd.org is. > Geez. It's good to see that people who donate their resources to a project are appreciated. For things the size of ISOs, I generally try and get the torrent because it allows me to 'donate' some of my bandwidth to distributing the project too. Since not everyone can donate code or expertise, this seems like a good way to help, as it does spread the load around more, and (in our well-connected office at least) I get to be a temporary mirror for something that is often in demand just after release.