Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!isi.edu!venera.isi.edu!jas From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Cooperating on Sys7 distribution Message-ID: <17909@venera.isi.edu> Date: 10 May 91 22:47:15 GMT References: <1991May10.120327.14942@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> <11363@ncar.ucar.edu> <1991May10.191603.7255@njitgw.njit.edu> Sender: news@isi.edu Distribution: comp Organization: USC-ISI Lines: 18 In-reply-to: gaines@mars.njit.edu's message of 10 May 91 19:16:03 GMT Well, *if* System7 will be up on an apple FTP site somehwere, we can easily reduce the load by "giving" system 7 to 5 freinds (via email, ftp, disks, whatever), who then give 7.0 to 5 friends, etc. If I were the first one, and I FTP'd it from apple.com (a purely hypothetical case, apparently, now), then the first 5 to email me would get 7.0 from me. The rest would get (randomly) distributed to the 5, who would perform the same algorithm ad nauseum. Any takers? The key is that everyone who's a supplier have decent net connections. jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California