lots of folks would no doubt agree with you that being able to 'plan ahead' would be great but you're forgetting that using gnutella/p2p means even if you find someone with the file you want and they do connect at the pre-arranged time you might still not be able to actually connect with each other because you each only have access to part of the total network - what you'd have to do is exchange IP addresses which would be a fairly dangerous thing to do because anyone else who also read it would also know your machine was going to be open/vulnerable - you could use google to find groups of people with similar tastes and then you could exchange addresses via more private emails - but it'd be a lot of schmoozing and still potentially dangerous - but hey - bet if you tried it there'd be plenty of responses and sometimes it 'd possibly work out - wouldn't go there myself though

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