Excuse the new dummie, and try not to rag on me too much, K?
I won't even pretend to be up on Gnutella Protocol (thus and honest question)
I have been using bearshare 2.50 since it started in development.
Right here and now, I have 5 hosts - 4 BS and 1 gtk-gnutella. Meanwhile, my uploads are dominated be Gnucleus and gtk-gnutella, hammering at requests apparently every second!? One guy is trying to get 9 files...he/she is putting a scroll bar on my upload screen (I have 3 slots open - 1 per user) I have high speed, so I finally said screw it, opened 7 slots and 7 per user. Doesn't matter because this behavior is typical and unending....Without exageration I would say at least 70% of my uploads have been to non-BS servents in the past week. In spite of the hosts.
So, why is unending, greedy, ignorant, rude-as-hell (especially when you find out they are on dial-up) hammering not a big deal. I don't see many of you complaining of that. Again, I am truly just curious here. The rest of your points concerning BS and Limewire are taken.