21 Jan
2007
21 Jan
'07
8:40 p.m.
On 21-Jan-2007, at 14:07, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Every torrent indexing site I'm aware of has RSS feeds for newly- added torrents, categorized many different ways. Any ISP that wanted to set up such a service could do so _today_ with _existing_ tools. All that's missing is the budget and a go-ahead from the lawyers.
Yes, I know.
If anybody has tried this, I'd be interested to hear whether on- net clients actually take advantage of the local monster seed, or whether they persist in pulling data from elsewhere.
[...] Do I have hard data? No. [...]
So, has anybody actually tried this? Speculating about how clients might behave is easy, but real experience is more interesting. Joe