On Thu, 19 May 2005, Timwi wrote:
If so, is this
not something where bittorrent is perfect for?
The servers are not currently overloaded with this. Downloading the dump
is pretty fast. Are you suggesting BitTorrent because it's the Coolest
New Thing? :-)
People request this from time to time. Most of the time, they fail to
realize the file(s) have to leave wiki's network at least once. And
there generally are far too few people to make a usable swarm. (Plus,
wiki has better network connectivity than most that download the files.)
BT is good for distributing large files to numerous users.
--Ricky