Posted by Morton Davis on 03/21/06 12:43

"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
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> dennis6449@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Morton, You're missing the point. If the person on THE OTHER END can't
> > work WinMX, then you don't have a file sharing system. So what is the
point?
>
> Can't work WinMX? While there are likely genuine connection issues, I
> doubt that there are very many who are affected by them. Mostly you've
> got people with perfectly workable set-ups who are too lazy to even
> look for potential solutions to their problem.
> >
> > Maybe you have your WinMX working just dandy, but if 90 percent of the
> > people who try to trade from/with you are down, then you have no
> > system. Sharing ceases.
>
> As a longtime sharer, I doubt that sharing is ceasing - rather we've
> got a smaller number of more efficient sharers, and still have to wade
> through the knuckleheads. That 100 percent of that "90 percent" (which
> is likely nowhere near that high) probably comprises people who 1)
> don't understand the basic principles of AFS/AEQ, 2) who try to use
> Open Nap, yet don't understand how that works; 3) give up at the first
> red-out; 4) never try to manually enter queues; 5) are fans of really
> crappy music which (in this age of American Idol) is also popular and
> therefore more likely to be faked and 6) are leeching (I have to have
> files to share files? No freakin way!!!).
> >
> > Soon WinMX will be two people patting themselves on the back saying how
> > clever they are to be able to use it.
>
> Unlike Limewire which is full of people who couldn't get WinMX to work.
> You hear these people moaning on the LimeWire NG - I tried WinMX, boy
> that was tough.
>
> > The rest of us have gone to Limewire -- which seems to be completely
happening, with
> > no glitches and lots of files.
>
> ...most of them being trojans and other malware.
>
I rarely have less than 100 in my qeue. WinMx is far from dead as I
encounter more and more local users in my local community. Using WinMx is
easier than falling off a log. dennis6449 is just the latest proof that it
is best to killfile yahoo.com. Nothing worthwhile is ever posted from a
yahoo address.

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