<<sigh>> I just don't think that it is a decent thing for a person who has not solicited Gnutella to even have to deal with it..if you don't download it, or visit its sites, you shouldn't have to deal with that...for what I do for a living, I need to have logs up, and having someone pinging me every 4 minutes for what turned out to be 24 hours is ridiculous. Sorry, I don't think that I should have to deal with a file sharing service that I have never asked for.
And the whole "tooting your horn" thing is reducing this situation to the absurd, and false logic. The true analogy would be someone tooting their horn for hours as you drove, then parking outside your house and continuing the tooting.
I don't care how determined someone is to love Gnutella..this is a problem, if random IPs can be victimized.