Posted by anthonyberet on 07/02/06 23:39

FeMaster wrote:
> "anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4ghol6F1nfq7qU1@individual.net...
>> Angrie.Woman wrote:
>>> DB_Story wrote:
>>>> I never share incompletes because I haven't verified them as valid.
>>>> If you
>>>> have a fake, corrupt, or just plain bad file, you don't want it to
>>>> continue
>>>> to be shared around the network.
>>> Me either. I found some bad files early on in my sharing days, so I
>>> stopped sharing them until I've listened to them first.
>> This is a topic which has been discussed in this group many times.
>> There is no 'correct' answer regarding sharing incompletes or not... the
>> feeling of many is that both approaches compliment each-other.
>>
>> Tell you what though, have you ever considered sharing a bad file but
>> putting a warning in the filename?
>
> While the warning in the file name IS a decent enough idea, it won't be all
> that effective. If during a search the file comes up with the "tagged"
> name, great, the downloader would know that all those in that particular
> download group are fakes.
>
Indeed.

> The problem would be with the AUTO "Find Sources" feature. If the "tagged"
> file wasn't online at the time, and an alternate file name was selected to
> download, then only that file name would appear in the person's download
> list. Even if this person connected to the file that was labeled as bad,
> unless that downloader actually browsed all the people that are in queue, or
> they are downloading from, they would never see the "bad or fake" tag in the
> file name...
>
Actually it will pick up the name that it first attaches to when a
resume starts - they might see that a partial of theirs is a fake.
I agree my suggestion is not perfect though. However, I don't really
think that not sharing it will help either - in that case a person will
either get it from another source, or will be left with an incomplete
for ever.

The advantage of many sources for a big file is considerable - I know
that I have profited well from others sharing incompletes.

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