Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?

I'm not going to pass judgment on what it is good for and what it isn't, or
what people use it for. As a technique, it's interesting, and not inherently
risky as far as I can see. Of course, the level of risk might depend heavily
on the company you keep, s.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Greg R" wrote in message
...
Gary
After reading some sites. I understand it to be a file sharing
client. Even through mozilla.org try's to fool you In my opinion.

I can't even understand why they want to use a program like that.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.8a1

I just got confused. One place I read it said downloads would be
faster.

Greg R


On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:33:59 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

I understand. But as I see it, if you are going to test it, you have to
test
it on a network that is BT enabled, not just any old download. What you
put
on your own machine is a client. What you download has to be from a
BT-enabled server (and the network that includes other BT clients.) You
said
you tried it on Mozilla Alpha--are you certain that the download was
started
from a BT-enabled server, and if so, how many peers and seeds might there
be
online at the moment? All of these are parameters and many more need to
be
considered, and even if they are all available, the only difference you
are
going to see is if there is a heavy demand on the server when you try the
server-only download.

Yes, disabling the firewall is a bad idea, but that's not what the page
you
originally referred to says to do. Heck, look farther down the page you
just
linked to. It's all laid out in great gory detail. It says to open
certain
ports for the specific purpose of letting BT do its thing. Whether or not
opening those specific ports is wise, I don't know. Firewalls are not my
bailiwick. But your questions and responses are, honestly, such that one
must wonder how well you understand the entire BT concept in the first
place.

Richard quit assume what you don't know.

Gee wiz, I just didn’t title my post correctly.
I was manually asking at first is the program safe to use also wanting
peoples opinion on this program. Then I get a little confused with
that faq. The other faq said to open all ports.

I got confused because mozilla says it could be downloaded
http://mozilla.org/releases/#1.8a1
Via BitTorrent

To me this sound like an ftp program not file sharing program. Yes I
know it is.

Richard you may be partially right I should of said I want people
opinion on how bt works and is it safe to allow access to those ports.

Note, I never used a file sharing program before. (Except I have
done dcc through irc)


Greg R