The Elder
Thanks for the compliment I like you statement about learning.
My grand father told me many years ago when I was about knee high to a grasshopper that any day I did not learn something was a day that I wasted. He also added that if later on I forgot what I had learned on that day the the day that I had learned it had been wasted. I took those statements to heart and have tried to learn something every day and stash it away in the old memory vault and hopefully I have not wasted too many day of my life.
I have found this forum to be one of the best around it has some very good moderators and members who have ethic and moral values and who genuinely like to help people. Thus my choice to try and share some of the Knowledge I have gained over time.
Only A Hobo
There has only been 1 tool that I know of that was effective at determining and blocking Leaches it was made for WinMx and it was called MxMonitor.
http://excite.co.jp/world/english/we...o=excitejapan. But the WinMx net was more efficient a browsing capabilities and chat you could browse and chat with virtually every body that was on the net. I wish the Gnutella net worked as well in that department.
When I was running WinMx along with MxMonitor I set up that you had to share at least 1 file because I was a newbie once. People would ask why they could not download from me I in turn would ask why they were not sharing. Some times they would answer back with there reasons other times they would cuss me out and sometime no reply. Never did anyone reply that they were sharing and that MxMonitor was messed up. So I know it is possible to to make a application that works just maybe not for the Gnutella network
It also had some other cool features like auto trade. If you had a file someone wanted and they had a file you wanted it would start them automatically and if they didn't start you within x amount of time it would disconnect them.
There was one feature you probably would have appreciate you could limit the amount of files a person could Q at a time if they went over that it would take them out of your Q and block there IP address. My self I would empty the baned IP log every 24 hrs so that people always had the chance to change there ways and download from me.
Writing about the WinMx days reminds me of a lesson I once learned myself. I was among the early computer users to learn about scam sites. You see I paid $11.00 for WinMx and it like LimeWire Basic was free. I myself made the same mistake allot of people make I did a Internet search for it found a site that said download unlimited music and software legal and free and bought the lifetime membership. I did not know I had been scammed for quite a while hell why would I it worked and everything was free. And why would I want to add 2 & 2 together it might make 4 then I would have to think about it.
So when I say to someone welcome to the legions of the scammed. I have every right to say it because I am a member of that legion myself.
