I must be simple, I cannot work out how to use Chat. I left click on the host then right click- drop down menu - click on chat with host - then nothing !
What am I doing wrong ? or am I incredibly thick !!!!!!!!
Cheers for any help.......... Ant

If you want to use Chat.
Like many of us DO, to inform people there Sharing Virus files.
The last version that worked half decent is 4.10.9
No one can Chat with anyone using 4.12.6 not even with 4.10.9
PM me if you would like 4.10.9
Peace.

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so what do we do next - is there any way to contact these hosts by their
ip addy

I'd like to hear the answer to that myself. Here's the deal..you try to get a file from me and you are not sharing or I can't browse your files or ask you to open up a slot for me and I'll do likewise, I'll kill your upload and so will THOUSANDS of other decent sharers. Having no chat is causing a lot of unnecessary kills on this end and it is a huge cause for festering freeloading because you have absolutely no way to educate a newbie or call out a freeloader. If killed uploads and freeloading is what LimeWire intended to accomplish, then by all means, don't ever fix the Chat function and judging from the date of the very first post concerning it, it looks like it never will be fixed.

I apologize if I kill your upload folks but I will not brook CONSTANT and UNASHAMED freeloading.

The LW devs were not even aware the chat had stopped working until AFTER the Beta came out. As of yet, they've yet to release another beta or regular version but they promised to fix it.

Freeloaders are not really that easy to detect. I've browsed someone & it showed zero results of shared files. 15 mins later they had 600 odd, 20 mins later about 60, etc. This has happened so so many times. Sometimes the browse function is not reliable & does not always show the total no. of files a user is sharing. I can only guess this is due to lack of slots or busy & lack of bandwidth to mirror or obtain any search results during the browse search. This issue of browsing to see if someone is sharing or not has been debated for 2-3 years already. Browse is simply NOT a "definitive" method of finding this out.

Thanks for the reply and sorry about the freeloader rant. I want to share but I don't wanna be no chump.

sandpacker
Lotr realy is fighting our corrner,hes tring hard to lobby our requests
Its up to everyone that wants chat as a nessesary tool to keep this
subject going so it can be seen.
Peace.

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im a newbie nd im sharing but i cnt seem to chat to anybody - and a lot of the files i want seem to tke forever to uplaoad - it seems a bit unfair if the system is not working that he downloadss uploads are killed just cause you cany chat - what are the rules ? Im confused

The chat function was accidentally disabled. Check out the new version of LW 4.12.10, it may have been fixed. http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

Hey Hero LOTR,

Peace.

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