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Posted by Triffid on 10/02/92 11:28
Perseus wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:05:18 +0100, Triffid <spamme@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
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>>Slyck has published the official obituary. WinMX is now officially,
>>truly dead. Don't be fooled by those progress bars in front of you.
>>
>>http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=940
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> Triffid,
>
> You might want to take a better look at the article you're referring
> to, for at the bottom of it it says this:
>
> "As a testament to the amazing cultural influence of this network, as
> well as the strength and ingenuity of its community, the network was
> resurrected two days later. Primitive host cache servers were
> established allowing the WinMX client to connect the restored network.
> A more permanent solution is currently being worked on."
>
> "While some scoffed at the idea and merely suggest another network, one
> has to remember the endurance and vitality of a P2P community; which in
> this circumstance proved to be mightier than the network itself. This
> fact is further supported by the surge of WinMX as the second gaining
> search term on Google.com ending the month of September."
>
> So this only goes to show that WinMX won't be defeated that quickly,
> and will probably be around for some time to come!
>
To quote the actual last paragraph:
'Some extremists still wait for the second coming of WinMX and hope it
will fulfill the great promise this network once had.'
Slyck was Winmx's primary advocate in the Good Old Days, and is now
sounding its death knell with barely a backward glance at the efforts
from many quarters to keep it alive. The article has the tone of a guy
dumped by his girlfriend and hopelessly asking 'WHY?'.
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