I share your views entirely. There is NO way to check in most cases if a Host is a leach or a freeloader or any sort of parasite, nor is there a way to automatically ban freeloaders from EVER uploading... BUT ... The other day I was getting seriously upset by one uploader who was taking what seemed like liberties. I eventually discovered he was a fine and generous host with whom I swap many files, but I only discovered this by making an educated guess at what he might be sharing and searching for it. The fact that he seemed to be using different ip nos, probably through no choice of his own, did not help. I have a long list of banned hosts, who will simply not share anything atall. whether this is because they are mean, or are totally unaware that they are, in fact, not sharing I usually know not. I am not keen on sharing with hosts I can not browse, but it is possible to only browse a handful, so i guess we just have to take each case as it comes.

I hgave many more thoughts on the subject, but I'll keep them for now ...