From: Michael Scheliga (Mikescheliga.com)
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 16:14:43 CDT

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How does all this noise help the project?

Of course all mirrors and sites are busy right after a release.
...but I haven't heard anybody ask for any additional mirrors
or great ideas. I'm pretty sure if this were indeed a problem
Theo or some other well known dev would ask for help.

The torrent "idea" has been beaten to death during previous
releases.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-miscopenbsd.org [mailto:owner-miscopenbsd.org]
> On Behalf Of sebastian.rotherjpberlin.de
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 1:52 PM
> To: miscopenbsd.org
> Subject: Re: using torrents for packages?
>
> >May be I am missing something, but I thought the project have/had
> >plenty of mirrors to go around. Yeap today and for the next few days
> >may be to busy as everyone is getting to them to get their files
> >instead of may be buying CD's, but other then that, I really thought
> >that capacity, even for packages was plenty.
> >
> >Is there really a need for more?
> >
> >And I am not talking about Torrents, as I prefer getting my
> data from a
> >trusted source thank you.
>
> You may wanna request some changes?
> F.e. dropping gzsig....
>
> I wonder why this tool got into the base if it`s not being used....
>
> Well you`ve to download a signed *.tgz completly before you
> could check it but you would download a currupt/modified
> tar.gz also completly before you`ll notice it....
>
> "Buy more CD-Sets" -> Show me a CD-Set containing all Packages...
>
> gzsig + torrent = maybe a solution for the install sets
> and/or packages "maybe"...
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Sebastian

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