stopping bittorrent

[daniel]

On May 2, 2004 03:46 am, Mel Seder wrote:
> Once my download is done can I terminate my program even though other
> bittorrent users may be downloading from me?

you can, but you shouldn't for a while.  bittorrent is cool because it 
distributes the bandwidth load over multiple clients.  but if everyone just 
kills the client as soon as they're done downloading, then this distribution 
is limited only to the few people who leave it on.

i believe that the general guideline is that you should leave it on for twice 
as long as it took you to download the file(s).  but if you can, leave it on 
for as long as possible and keep the bits flowing ;-)

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