On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:21, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
So the problem is that if you have a project that has "discovered" bittorrent, but has yet to discover all the potential problems it has, you end up with a project that's inaccessible to a large portion of it's potential audience. The standard OSS community response is to blame the users, and belittle their skills and knowledge because they can't get bittorrent to run.
BitTorrent has and always will be a method to handle high load for a lot of interest in something over a short period of time. I know of no projects that exclusively use BitTorrent to distribute software. If there is someone doing that, however, it's not a very good idea and they should probably reconsider.
The documentation for BitTorrent clearly states that you must poke a hole in your firewall in order to get the best performance from BitTorrent; any bad experience you've had after doing that should be directed to the author.