Now I'm really scared for the network. A statement like this demonstrates a total lack of appreciation for what is required for something as complicated as a gnutella client. It's not a matter of putting your software online with known bugs not being fixed. It's a matter of not being able to tell you have bugs until you go online. You can't fix it if you don't know it's broken, and there's no way you can know it's broken unless you start linking up to other clients. This has nothing to do with your personal programming practices; it's in the very nature of the beast. I was simply suggesting you could reduce the chance of catastrophic failure by gaining experience with related projects.