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Posted by FeMaster on 10/18/02 11:51
"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
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> Angrie.Woman wrote:
> > DB_Story wrote:
> >> I never share incompletes because I haven't verified them as valid.
> >> If you
> >> have a fake, corrupt, or just plain bad file, you don't want it to
> >> continue
> >> to be shared around the network.
> >
> > Me either. I found some bad files early on in my sharing days, so I
> > stopped sharing them until I've listened to them first.
>
> This is a topic which has been discussed in this group many times.
> There is no 'correct' answer regarding sharing incompletes or not... the
> feeling of many is that both approaches compliment each-other.
>
> Tell you what though, have you ever considered sharing a bad file but
> putting a warning in the filename?
While the warning in the file name IS a decent enough idea, it won't be all
that effective. If during a search the file comes up with the "tagged"
name, great, the downloader would know that all those in that particular
download group are fakes.
The problem would be with the AUTO "Find Sources" feature. If the "tagged"
file wasn't online at the time, and an alternate file name was selected to
download, then only that file name would appear in the person's download
list. Even if this person connected to the file that was labeled as bad,
unless that downloader actually browsed all the people that are in queue, or
they are downloading from, they would never see the "bad or fake" tag in the
file name...
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