Posted by Angrie.Woman on 10/09/05 23:36

George Hester wrote:
> "Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
> news:RBe2f.30$GH2.27@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net...

>>
>>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.

But some of the fake file suppliers have tons of files to view. One of
the "heads up!" signs I used was seeing if there were multiple copies of
the same file available.

A

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