To true. Have you noticed that most connections and search results are from other 'Bearshare' users?
How strange. Cause there are lots of other gnutella clients out there.
It looks to me like Bearshare actually FILTERS OUT the NON-Bearshare clients.

It helps to spread the product. Just like Microsoft tried and succeeded in 'urging' Windows users to use MS Internet Explorer in various cunning ways (installation was forced onto you, PC crash when you also tried to install Netscape, etc.).

Stay away from Bearshare. It may look nice, work quite well, but it is not P2P anymore. No privacy whatsoever.

You don't mind? Continue using it.

Best gnutella clients as far as I am concerned are:
- GNOTLELLA 0.99 (though I am a bit unsure about the AFileDB.exe being used with it).
- PHEX 0.46 = FAR OUT GREAT. And still being improved.
Bit slow in connecting, but way good the rest.

J