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On Sunday 27 June 2004 18:12, Ben Coleman wrote:
> Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> | I love watching the mirrors crumble when there's a new slack release!
> | Everyone hurriedly connecting to get their fix. I'm so glad I run swaret
> | against /current the night before, so I don't have to deal with it.
>
> Why deal with the mirrors?  BitTorrent makes downloading the ISOs a
> snap, and no fighting with mirrors.  I had all 4 disks downloaded the
> day I saw the announcement.  That never would have happened fighting
> with the mirrors.

Well, I tried the torrent for one ISO yesterday. The estimated down load time 
on that one was 16 hours. I got it from the mirror in one. BitTorrent works 
really well some of the time, but certainly not all of the time.
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