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Morgwen

I cant beleive this! So basicly if you aint BS or LW youre not on the network! Maybe they need to go buy their own network.

From: freepeers info@f...
Date: Tue Mar 12, 2002 8:43pm
Subject: Re: Feature Query Proposal

--- In the_gdf@y..., "jbt00000" <junkmail@j...> wrote:
> --- In the_gdf@y..., "freepeers" <info@f...> wrote:
> I would hope other developers would jump on the bandwagon and adopt
> useful features, but based on past history (yes, LW and BS
> are included), things move slowly (when were ultrapeer
> and huge approved?). I wont base my commercial existance on the
> widespread deployment of all my ideas by other servents.

If you have a commercial interest then you should both operate a host
cache, and include connection preferencing features to make your
clients clump together. This was our solution, and it works quite
nicely without requiring protocol extensions. LimeWire has used that
solution for a while now and it has worked well for them too.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/6284

More info:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=9064

Morgwen