As yet I have not got chat to work. It needs the host at the other end to respond and I am not quite sure how Phex connects if atall to other applications. In my experience Chat does not work very well on Gnutella. You click on chat to host and a dialogue box comes up, but usually when you post, it says something like "host unavailable"

ignored candidate does seem to mean they have gone offline. It might be best to make a new search and start again, or they MIGHT come back on ... perhaps in a day or a week.

I'm a bit new too but you will get the hang of it. It is a bit complicated, so ask if you have anymore questions.

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