new: edonkey bot update

[Smoketoomuch]

The new bot for eDonkey is out. Here is the message I got today:

- Add 'in the fly' servers informations (name, description, etc) to eDonkey
- More reliable, bugs fixed over previous versions
- eDonkey server list window 100% completely updated
* Personal servers list version 2:
- Support now for server name, description, priority
- eDonkey server window always show clearly servers origin
* Mirroring of Slug MAX server list, very very good server list
* Proxy support (download of server list)
* reading procedure of server.met file completly rewritten

BUGS & MISC
* bugs auto priority fixed
* bugs on servers deleting: fixed
* 'add server' window staying: fixed
* update of server name connected
* Restore normal edk speed on bot exit
* Detailed error messages on 'edk controls not found' and for FGS problems
* No more deleting of identical ip servers but differents ports
* update server.met limited to 1h
* No more server changing on low users number

There were rumour that the bot is bad for the donkey:
" I think I've found a possible problem, some weeks ago the hits increased dramatically and I'm 98% sure that it's from this edonkeyBot ! About 9 from 10 request came from the bot (don't ask me why I know that) so I now will begin to refuse these requests. I saw that now just my mirrors are given as url in the bot0.62, so maybe I have to take these mirrors also down due too much traffic for my ISP (the bot produced about 500'000 hits per day on my server!) ... if everyone is using this bot, edonkey will die ;-( The reason for my serverlist was that not everyone has to check the servers himself and therefore the servers have more time to do what they really should do ! I don't know what to say anymore ...

but that was resolved, you can read about it in this post:

http://www.file-finder.com/pbb_us/message.php?sid=48

Btw, there forum is great, pb33 the developer replies to most questions about the bot.