Posted by Perseus on 01/19/20 11:28

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:05:18 +0100, Triffid <spamme@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>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

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!

Greetz,

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Perseus

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