Thanks Peerless! I didn't expect to get much respect from people who would frequent this forum, but I felt it was worth posting anyway to let Gnutella users become aware of the hostile nature of some of the flakey software that they use.

The port doesn't even exist on my internet connection machine, and it is <well> protected. Perhaps I could do something to stop the nonsense, but is it really my responsibility? And does anything I do eliminate the root cause for the many other people who suffer from this intrusion? No to both.

I have found one of the most annoying offenders at a Navy housing center in the hills of Japan to whose security I have sent an email about their DOS attack. The other bad one is at bellsouth.rr.com, and I have sent a similar email to their abuse team.

I don't pretend, nor do I want, to become an expert in the inside of p2p file sharing, but I do know the tools and the resources to kick in to bring a greater public scrutiny to bear on this bad software construct and punish abusers of others internet rights.

Trite one liners from moderators will only fuel this effort. Paradog decided that, rather than reveal in this forum his statements in other forums about how hard he has tried to write a Gnutella client, he would offer silliness. Kath is equally off the wall with triteness and non-content!