bittoorrent - another strange question.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

I have a tangential Bittorrent question. Why would a installation like
ours who have taken great trouble to beef up security with a tight
firewall suddenly open ports 6881-6889 through the firewall? We are
not interested in serve other people with software so what is the
purpose of using Bittorrent?
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Aaron Konstam
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