Kelly Anderson wrote:
Would someone who is familiar with both Gnutella and
Bittorrent tell me
why using Bittorrent for such a project would be stupid? It would
certainly use less of Wikipedia's already strained bandwidth.
Well, wikipedia's bandwidth is not strained at all. And I don't think
that large downloads of whatever is really going to be an issue.
There have been proposals, which I enthusiastically support, that we
should in some organized and sensible fashion try to share our
articles on Gnutella networks. The reason to use gnutella rather than
bittorrent for such a thing is just that lots more people use gnutella
than bittorrent, although I should add that once we decide on ways to
share things, then sharing by either system should be simple enough.
But, perhaps I'm behind the times in some ways, so maybe I've got this
all wrong.
--Jimbo