Posted by Angrie.Woman on 10/10/05 03:46

George Hester wrote:
> "Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
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>>George Hester wrote:
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>>>"Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>>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
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>>>Do a whois on them and look at their on queue. A leecher is someone who
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> is
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>>>d/l from you and has 0 files in shares. Remember those that do this in
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> all
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>>>likelihood know what they are doing. New users do not know enough to
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> remove
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>>>their partials from their shares. Ip so fact o all are leechers who do
>>>that.
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>>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.

> Sure but a fake file supplier is not a Leecher. A Leecher is one who shares
> nothing and expects you to give him\her what he\she wants. A fake file
> supplier is a person who is sharing fakes. Hey even I might be guilty of
> that. I d/l much more then I actually see at any one time. And share them.
> But for the most part I do catch the fakes and delete them.
>

I thought the fake files were the ones that you could never download.
Are there other file types out there?

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