Nope, you missed my point: BS clients CAN download files from the rest of gnutella network, but other clients, like Gnucleus, Gtk-Gnutella, Mutella and I guess more CANNOT download files from BS back. This way the BS subnet in gnutella-net is nothing else than a bunch of freeriders, because they do not share files back to the whole of Gnutella but still consume upload slots. Typical freeriding, nothing else!

With this regard, I propose not to bann them from the net completely, no, but rather just stop sharing files to them. I do realise that it's difficult to do and that if really major clients go for that than the next release of BS will replace User-Agent header in it's download request... but still, something HAS TO BE DONE! This kind of behaviour is just antisocial!


--Max