Having a copy of .torrent in the /iso dir

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 7/5/05, Richard June <rjune at bravegnuworld.com> wrote:
> I gotta say, I *LIKE* that plan.
> you want fedora for the first few days, great. get the torrent.

Thats very short sighted. Not everyone lives on a network that is
friendly to torrent activity.
I'm pretty sure that some of the official mirrors would much rather
see the users inside their local networks consume from a locally
available mirror than to waste bandwidth across the network boundary
to the outside world pulling from and pushing to torrent peers out in
the wild.  What exactly is the point of making life more difficult for
the admins of large networks who are volunteering to mirror fedora and
allow some public access? I very much doubt you would get all the
mirrors to agree to wait.  Even if by some miracle all those
'official' mirrors do wait... other people who get the torrent will
open mirrors regardless.
  
-jef