instant messaging
 

Maybe it has been mentioned before, is it possible to build some sort of IM feature into LimeWire? The other day a major lightening storm thundered through town and I pissed off several ppl downloading from me by shutting my pc down before they were finished. One dude was halfway through 200MB at a blistering 2Kbps (yes, TWO). I am sure he is extremely patient but if he catches me on the street he'll kill me for sure. It would have been nice to tell him why I was dumping him.

Kurt

Napster had (has?) a feature like this, didn't it? I personally used Rapster on the Mac and enjoyed being able to send a "thank you" to people who allowed me to download.

We are looking into adding this type of functionality for future LimeWire versions. No promises yet, but we are definitely giving it strong consideration.

This would be pretty damn easy really. All they would have to do is switch the http file transfer with a chat connection. That is all the limewire team did.

Then if we just create a seperate client that uses a different connection stream so we would have our own designated network for chatting rather then mixing up our bandwidth with the file transfer people.

Chat connections could be secure and verified based on simple PGP connections.

Search key word's and returns are simply unique userID's attached to a nickname.

That be the first working bones for the first decentralized instant messaging system? It could kill AIM and all the rest, if anyone has the balls to make it.