Posted by anthonyberet on 09/26/05 22:38

ChenHA wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:06:08 +0100, "db" <@ .> wrote:
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>>"ChenHA" <hzhen@freeuk.com> wrote in message
>>news:suhgj1d5pva21psu9a4sm4d1la5omg960m@4ax.com...
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>>>Barring Frontcode deciding to do something about WinMX future, it
>>>looks like people using the program is actually taking over the
>>>running of the network. It's an accidental people's revolution. I
>>>see advantages and problems - for example, it would be easier to
>>>control the fake files since the people using it are the more
>>>"computer savvy" type, and so it might be easier to identify and block
>>>the fakers, it may also means that the people running the servers
>>>might become subject to legal action.
>>
>>Assuming they even need to use the peer caches for access (which I don't
>>believe they necessarily do)...
>>
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>
> How so?
>
> Is there a germ of an interesting idea?
>
>
>>I'm not sure about 'where do we go from here' as I'm not too confident that
>>things are going to turn out well at all given some of what I've been seeing
>>lately (concerns with the new 'operators' attitudes, in-fighting, the jostle
>>for authority, etc, etc (power, and all it entails)). I keep alternating
>>between a positive & negative outlook about the future of the network so
>>far, though probably biased towards the negative.
>
>
> I don't have any particular opinion one way or the other. I think
> that it is likely to be temporary thing until someone else come up
> with a better solution, and I do also think that fragmentation of the
> network is a very likely scenario with different people running
> different WinMX networks.
>
If we continue to use these kind of host files, i don't see that as a
problem - one can just combine more than one of the hostfiles, and put
it out as the combined version - this has already happened, with KM and
Dr Drac's files coming out separately but already having been combined
on at least one site.
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>>The way I'm looking at it is that WinMX and the WPN was effectively put down
>>when FC's caches went offline, though, has been resusitated in a new guise
>>to whose future is uncertain. Trust ended on that day, for me, to be
>>replaced by concern (or something).
>>
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> Trust in whom? Frontcode or the people running peer caches? I do
> wonder if I can trust the people running peer caches, but we'll see.
>
Who knows? - I think they are doing this because they love Winmx though,
which isn't a bad motivation.

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