Gnutella problems

[Ashitaka]

Ack, my post got deleted ;_; Here's what I can remember about the problems:

1. The 272-ASFs. You know what I'm talking about. Do a search for anything on a well-connected client and you'll see a 272KB ASF file with your search for a filename. Open it up to see some pr0n spam. I think LimeWire has developed a program to make spam like this.
2. The little enabled checkbox on BearShare reading, "Do not accept incoming connections". 5 out of 6 people using Gnutella are relying on the other 1/6 to provide a network.
3. 95% of the files I request don't make it to the computer hosting them. AquaLime simply retries the request until I tell it to stop. What's up with this? Is it a network problem, or is it just because I'm behind a router? It confuses me. ^^;

Let's not forget the problems the trolls love to rant about -- the ambiguously networked duo of LimeWire and BearShare, for example. I know myself that I'm only hooking up to LimeWire clients, even though Gnucleus recently incorporated its own ultrapeer program.

Not quite an argument for OpenSource Buzzword Network, but hey, if we want to make Gnutella a good network, we have to fix what's broken before we can fix what isn't broken.