I have seen a recent suggestion to implement 'take a number' style cues for downloading .. ie first in first served.

I think this would be bad, for two reasons,

1) modem users usually have time-limits on their connections. Many other users don't (cable, DSL, T1) and I think they would block up the download pipe for popular servers.

These other users also have nice fast connections already .. so people with super duper connections already would be further benefitted while those with already poor connections would find it EVEN HARDER to download anything of note.

2) old clients or anyway those which choose not to support the feature would effectively be blocked by those that do. Which sux something chronic.

Vote for democracy - vote against cues!

Anyone know if this is already implemented? It was in Napster, wasn't it? My only experience of Napster was on cable, so it would be interesting to hear feedback.