Posted by Saul Levy on 01/19/09 11:28

The hosts file is normally not needed, but the only change to make the
WinMX network work IS a new hosts file. Very few users will read this
newsgroup and try a new hosts file. If both ends need this file (not
always John wrote), that will really slow down getting the file to
everyone.

Saul Levy


On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:25:20 +0100, pooter <a@bff.com> wrote:

>Saul Levy [saullevy1@cox.net] said
>> One other thing I just thought of: Maybe BOTH ends have to be using
>> the hosts file? That would really slow things down...
>>
>
>Why do you think they do not both need the hosts file already and why do
>you think this requirement would slow things down?

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