From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T20:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell...

On 9/28/05, Han Holl <han.holl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you consider using bittorrent? The more it's used for legitimate
> purposes, the harder it will be to do away with it. And you'll _never_
> [get] slashdotted.

Well, honestly, BitTorrent requires that there be continuous interest in
the files being torrented. Unless the files are well seeded and/or
downloaded often, BitTorrent downloads will often be much slower than
simple FTP downloads with round-robin mirrors as have been set up for
RubyForge.

There is, by the way, exactly one file that would even remotely qualify
for BitTorrenting based on the popularity profile -- ruby182-15.exe.

-austin
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