a new p2p structure

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Originally posted by JackSpratts

i had lots of favorite "partners" on napster, users i miss to this day. although i keep in touch with some whose email addys i managed to get, if napster or morpheus had used aol as a comm tool (you can name your own), i'd still be sharing with dozens of them right now, long after the demise of the initiating clients.

i know the feeling.

one thing - instead of p2p clients featuring im integration, how about if a new im service could detect existing p2p and im clients running on your connection, and then give you the option to store users' information and add them to a hotlist within the new im program? if enough people could be persuaded to install the new im program and add each other as contacts, then it would become a useful tool for migration to a new, decentralised im/p2p network from existing centralised and semi-centralised ones.