I must admit that I'm the newest of new newbies and I need some help in efficiently getting through all the information required in actively using P2P sites such as Limewire etc. I know I'll have to do a lot of homework but can someone put me in the right direction of good, simple articles to read (at first). I'm so bad that I don't know what IP Addresses are etc.

I hope someone can help. I'm not lazy so if you put me in the right direction I'll obsessively study the subject.

Regards - jbal

Welcome jbal, have fun!

Getting Started Using LimeWire - Gnutella Forums
Frequently Asked Questions - LimeWire
User Guide - LimeWire

You may also want to have decent information about filesharing in general:
File sharing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peer-to-peer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
File sharing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And about other clients:
Gnutella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Comparision of Gnutella clients)
Shareaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (my preferred P2P application; have a look at the Shareaza forums; new version will be released during the next 10 days.]
Shareaza - Daily Builds [here you can find current debug builds...]

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Thanks Blackhorse70V. Lucky I'm both obsessive and have a SOH. The only thing I'm lacking is time because I'll probably be dead by the time I can absorb the P2P phenomonen (just joking)

Regards - jbal

Thanks, OldDeath! U really gave the best links for newbies)

I always try to help as I like being helped, too

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