A BitTorrent tracker tracker like trackon?

Hi All, I occasionally use the Transmission bit torrent client to obtain old public-domain and/or expired-copyright films. I am definitely an entry-level user of BitTorrent, and easily confused by the technology of it. But one of the things I do understand and like about it is the feature to edit the trackers for each active torrent. For a couple years now, I've gone to www.trackon.org (NOT .com) every few months, to get an up-to-date list of the "healthiest" trackers. This looks like an early announcement for it, and gives you a look and feel of it... trackon.moviesndroids.com Sadly, the links are dead, as is the URL a couple paragraphs above. Does anyone know if Trackon is permanently dead? Does anyone know of another "tracker tracker", where I can get the URLs of active and healthy trackers? Is there a common name for "tracker tracker"s or "tracker monitor"s that I don't know about, and can search for? Thanks very much, Carl Turney Bayswater

Carl Turney wrote:
I occasionally use the Transmission bit torrent client to obtain old public-domain and/or expired-copyright films.
Last time I did that, I just wgetted films from archive.org. Have you considered and rejected that approach? (I guess they probably don't have the content you want and/or it's too slow to fetch from just one host.)

On 7/03/2014 4:56 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Carl Turney wrote:
I occasionally use the Transmission bit torrent client to obtain old public-domain and/or expired-copyright films.
Last time I did that, I just wgetted films from archive.org. Have you considered and rejected that approach?
(I guess they probably don't have the content you want and/or it's too slow to fetch from just one host.)
archive.org also has .torrent files for some downloads, worth checking further options if the content is there. But for plenty of content wget or curl will get you the file /soon/ enough... Cheers A.

Hi, On 07/03/14 16:56, Trent W. Buck wrote: ...
Last time I did that, I just wgetted films from archive.org. Have you considered and rejected that approach?
(I guess they probably don't have the content you want and/or it's too slow to fetch from just one host.)
Yeah, while archive.org is great for PD materials, they don't hold everything. Ditto for gutenberg.org So: No one on the list knows about any tracker trackers like Trackon? Sigh. Cheers, Carl
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Andrew McGlashan
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Carl Turney
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