Posted by George Hester on 10/09/05 20:27

"Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
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> anthonyberet wrote:
>
> >
> > I certainly think that the current climate makes the need to ban leeches
> > even more important.
>
>
> How do you manage that? Is there a procedure, or some settings, or
> software, that ID's who the leeches are?
>
> What is the definition of "leech" anyway? I think it is somebody who
> doesn't have files available to share, but is it actually more
> complicated? I've seen "fake file suppliers" that have lots of files
> "available" if you do a browse on them. How would you be able to tell
> that person wasn't actually sharing?
>
> A

Do a whois on them and look at their on queue. A leecher is someone who is
d/l from you and has 0 files in shares. Remember those that do this in all
likelihood know what they are doing. New users do not know enough to remove
their partials from their shares. Ip so fact o all are leechers who do
that.

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George Hester
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