Why did you call it "General Gnutella Development Discussion" when there is actually no development??

You complained that it took over 1 year for v0.6 to be spread out on the net? Why do you think the client-developers inmplemented the ability of online-updates in their programs?
Even if a user isn't interested in the new version, he would probably click on "yes, update" just to get rid of the annoying message that a new version is available .
And if you make banners telling about a new protocol version "new, faster protocol v0.7 supported" it would work fine. (faster sounds good for all the average AOL-users , and its a little bit faster anyway )

just my opinion.... nils.lw