Posted by George Hester on 01/20/10 11:30

"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
news:3s7pdqFmvoanU2@individual.net...
> Don Wiss wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:05:44 +0100, anthonyberet <nospam@me.invalid>
wrote:
> >
> >
> >>There are arguments against sharing incomplets, such as quality-checking
> >>etc, but don't forget that incomplete large files (over 100mb total) are
> >>pretty much essential for large files to propagate effectivley.
> >
> >
> > I disagree. Because of leeching the WinMX is upload bandwidth
constricted.
> > Even many people that share a lot of files choke down their upload
> > bandwidth. So getting bytes is dependent on this limitation, and not
> > whether you are downloading from a completed file or an incomplete.
> >
> > The only time incompletes help bandwidth is from the people that only
share
> > incompletes. If they didn't share them they would not be supplying any
> > bytes into the network.
> >
> er hang on, are you saying that although I share complete files and large
> incomplete files, when somebody downloads from an incomplete, that this
> doesn't help the network?
> Data is data - as long as not corrupted, more sources of a file are
> always going to help, not hinder.

Anthony 100% shared files which are uncorrupted because they are full are
better than 2% of INCOMPLETE files wherein they are corrupted. I chose 2%
that is very small. The file I am thinking about has 95% corrunpted on the
Network all partials which you think is good to share. And that is not the
only one. If all users shared just complete files that would be the end of
the File Mismatch error. Now I know if your files are under 5MB that is no
big deal but files that are 1GB this can be a major pain in the butt.
Because once corrupted they will drown out the valid files.

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George Hester
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