There are lots of alternative Gnutella programs if using BS is causing problems for you as Lemmonwire suggested.

I was kind of thrown by that .zip file comment until I read LOTR's response....since the files in the BS program files folder is either a .txt or a .dat file the mentioning of a .zip file was weird....

why the advising to use it?...because its a good program that besides the time/date hack works fine...

as far as the ol' death knell concept, might as well ring that bell for all the gnutella clients besides LW and Phex...

so you've had issues with the time date hack eh?....I never have, but my daughter has 3 times on her machine, that being the date becoming locked and refusing to go back after 15-30 seconds....

as far as comparing it to any other version of BS, the beta version does have the ol' force UP option which makes it a step above any other version...

as mentioned there are other alternatives which some would argue as being better..

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