Posted by Angrie.Woman on 07/04/06 04:55

anthonyberet wrote:
> 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?

I can't imagine why anybody would want the bad files I had. Some were
misnamed, and some started to play then would SCREEEEEECH loudly about
30 seconds into the song. They were pretty deliberate attempts at
sabotage IMHO.

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