[ale] back to Slack It is here!!!!!!!!!!!!! Version 10.0

Michael H. Warfield mhw at wittsend.com
Sun Jun 27 22:57:16 EDT 2004


On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:55:31PM -0400, Eric Webb wrote:
> On Sunday 27 June 2004 06:12 pm, 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.

> That's strange... I had no such trouble with one of said mirrors.

	I have more trouble with BitTorrent than with mirrors.  When
BitTorrent is in "turtle mode" then I drop back to one of the reliable
mirrors I know of and it beats the pants off BitTorrent.

> Eric

	Mike
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