How would you get data about what client people that are sharing are using? Or what client experienced people are using? Also I don't think that those two group are necessarily the same people.

The only way I know of to do this would be tracking who you personaly download from. Sorry but tracking who you download from is what Kirby thought that I was doing, and Kirby was right it is meaningless data.

I was not trying to track who is sharing, I was just looking at the number of people using each client in comparison to one another, i.e. the popularity of each client. And for this purpose my data is more accurate and larger then any I have even seen before. Mainly because I have only seen personal opitions or data from about 100 unique IP addesses or less.

You are right LimeWire used to be the popular one, but now BearShare is so older users most likely sharing more or going to be using LimeWire more, and the new users are going to be using BeaShare more. But since I am not trying to find old vs. new user or sharing vs. freeloading these don't matter. I am only looking at popular vs. not so popular with the users on the network today.

If you want try to tack something else please do, but this thread was started to track client popularity on the network, and the voting poll was for people to vote for their personal favorite client mainly so they could disagree with the client popularity data if they wanted to.

If you want to do something like sharing vs. freeloading I am sure that lots of people would be interested in it.