On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:12, Brook Humphrey wrote: > I shut it off for sabbath.
This is something I've wondered about occasionally: by having your torrent up, do you become responsible for work that other people might be doing because of it? Are they conceptually a part of your household? If so, and they are in different timezones, are you responsible only during sabbath-for-you, or sabbath-for-them, or both? Is your computer counted as a kind of an animal or servant for purposes of deciding what it can or can't do on sabbath, or as an inert object like a stream (which continues to work throughout sabbath)? If your own computer is a kind of a servant, where do you stand WRT leaving your email and/or web domains up during sabbath? Does it make a difference whether your computer or your ISP's is doing the work? I've met sabbatarians, and computer people, but never someone who was both and also willing to satisfy my curiosity. Happy to see a reply on or off list. Cheers; Leon
