Anyone who spends time reading the threads in the Star Wars fan edits & preservations forum will recognise this typical exchange of posts:

Ady: I've just finished xyz. Going up in a.b.sw now.

Person A: I'm waiting for the torrent.

Person B: Is there a torrent yet?

Person C: Can someone upload to RS please?

Person Z: Why don't you just get newsgroups, better, faster, no seeding, yada yada yada...

Person A: too hard

Person B: too complicated

Person C: too expensive

... and so on.

Now I don't mind there being a discussion about the merits of different methods of project distribution, but at the moment it seems we have the same discussion in every f**king thread, and TBH it's getting a little boring reading the same arguments over and over.

Therefore, I have started this thread for all future newsgroups vs torrents discussion. Hopefully this will keep the actual project threads free from clutter and make it easier to follow the actual project.