[ale] Re: Need New Home & Admin for List & Site

[James Sumners]

I wasn't even talking about excessive bandwidth usage. My main
contention with the idea is having to rely on Joe Schmoe to keep his
torrents running.

To deritchie: if you are going to include your personal email address
in the reply-to header, turn off the spam filter response. I'm not
going to "approve" myself to send you emails.

2008/1/28 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:10 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> > The "install/upgrade software" bit makes me think he is talking about
> > the BT protocol being built into package managers, e.g. apt. That
> > would be a _horrible_ idea.
>
> This is true... though there are improvements that could be made in
> packaging systems that would reduce the amount of network bandwidth they
> use.  I was reading about such a system yesterday, though I cannot
> remember what it was called.  Part of "Foresight" Linux, I think.
>
>
>         -- Mike


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James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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