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Originally posted by BuzzB2K
Have you been keeping up with th eDonkey scene? The Bots got shut down on Sat. One of the things the Bot did was flood the network with it's searches - we're running Botless now...
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Buzz,
yep, eDonkey, along with WinMX, is currently my prime p2p app. I am following the eDonkey bot debate pretty closely. I know that the bot causes a lot of problems for the eDonkey network. And I didn't mean to imply that the bot was good.
It was merely an example of how much tweaking one program can do to another. The bot adds/changes buttons to eDonkey, automatically reconnects to other servers if the dl/ul rate drops below a certain threshold for a given amount of time, pauses and restarts downloads if there is no transfer, and all that.
I am fully aware that this causes havock to the eDonkey network, but it is, as I said, a good example of one program manipulating another - like MX does, to a lesser extent, to Grokster.
Agreed?
Stoepsel - just as happy running eDonkey bot-less