Cyclocide that is totally cool. You are freely to state your opinions as I have stated my thoughts. This Anti-BearShit thing is a make fun of, prove some points, and pick at BearShare and fun parody (also a little humor of microsoft with the windows comment. LimeWire and Phex are the only Cross-Platform clients :]) Why not create a program to use for all OSes instead of single shitty one?

Most of your comments I've answered in the post reply to Moak (Updated BearShare fan site thread).

What are the encrypted packets for?

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Most new users who just use the gnutella to download music, porn, and movies are the ones who really dont give a **** on how the network operates. Then whines and complains that they can't download anything b/c of the fact that people are not sharing or accepting incoming connections. It should be a default that BearShare has to accept incoming connections. If your connection (firewalled, etc) doesnt accept connections then why do you need a option to say if you want to accept incoming connections or not? You dont thats why.


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LimeWire and some other clients have a feature to filter out results for a specific file type (such as program [exe,zip], audio [mp3, ram, wma], etc). Alot of people are searching for specific files such as the_band - the_song.mp3. Those type of queries congests the network. Maybe one person has that file in that exact filename out of 1,000 hosts. Now if that same person searched for keywords such as the band or the song in the audio file type. They would get a lot more results back than they searched the first time the_band - the_song.mp3. Because maybe a host has that file but with the filename the band_the song.mp3. Maybe that host doesnt have any upload slots filled. So you could download the file. Now with BearShare when you search for something it just places all your results in one big list. Now if you wanted to search for something else you would have to stop and clear the list or just scroll down through a lot of results you didnt want in the first place (file type wise). I believe LimeWire and other clients have seperate result lists for your searches (better organization). They also have "grouping" as if multiple hosts have the same filename and size it will place that specific result in a grouping. Say 10 hosts have the same file. So you know you have a better download succession rate than a result only with one host to download from. BearShare's resume download and a grouping (caching of known hosts instead of initializing another search) feature would be excellent.