On 3/5/07, River Tarnell <river(a)attenuate.org> wrote:
Gregory Maxwell:
Users would probably prefer the http/ftp download
link option. It's
simple, easy and fast.. at least it is so long as we have enough
bandwidth to support it.
I don't believe that anyone thinks otherwise.
But user preference is
irrelevant if the cost of bandwidth causes us to choose to not make
such things available.
we don't currently pay for bandwidth at knams (which includes hemlock),
so if you want to offer HTTP download as well, i don't see that being a
problem.
[shhhh. The folks who complain that we spend too much on bandwidth
might move on to subjects which are harder to refute...]
of course not many people are going to bother with BT
if there's an
HTTP alternative ;-)
Yes, this was my point. Geek fetishism would be the only reason use BT
if we offered it via http. :) This would prevent us from learning
about BT, which may or may not make sense for the future.