Re: [Gaim-devel] [Fwd: Short summary with Gnutella-Information for FTP]

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Closedshop spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Gnutella is a very good protocol, though some of the donkey-protocol
> have a wrong image-view on gntuella. I am downloading new chart-music on

gnutella is _not_ a good protocol.  gnutella absolutely RAPES the
network on searches.  I will not stand for a gnutella client in gaim.

> The developer of Shareaza.com has engeneered a Protocol called gnutella
> 2, you can finde here, The differen is, that the whole network is
> searched, Gnutella 1 for this purpose implemented then the
> GUESS-Proposal, which makes the same.

I have not seen enough of Gnutella 2 to make a real verdict, but the
whitepapers I read early in development did not look promising.  He
had not given up on his asinine flood searching.

> Overnet (www.overnet.com) is the serverless edonkeynetwork
> (www.edonkey2000.com), while edonkey now is hybrid with overnet.
> Emule (www.emule-project.net) is a opensourced client for this network,
> as well serverbased.

E-mule and E-donkey both appear to be poor network citizens as well.

> These links are published on boards, but are as well transferred via
> INSTANT MESSAGING (especialle there is a new tool call Bittorrent, which
> is a deamon and ha sno search engine, so the Link distribution is
> totally referred to Instant Messages or boards).

Bittorrent seems to be well-designed and reasonable.  I would have no
problem with supporting some sort of cooperation with a bittorrent
client.

> As well do not only look for the close advantages for messaging, look on
> the whole system.

I don't care if it brings massive ease of use or hundreds of users to
gaim.  If it is bad for the network, I can NOT support its inclusion
in gaim.  I am not interested in debating this, either, as I am sick
and tired of trying to discuss network protocols with people who
shouldn't be using them, much less talking about implementing them.

Ethan

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