I stand by my comments but there are a couple of issues here - yes there are fewer LW ultrapeers and morpheus folk seem a tad stingy but we need to carefully distinguish between user characteristics and software architecture - morpheus ultrapeers are not as good as LW ultrapeers because half the time they shouldn't be ultrapeers at all but the software defaults position them that way anywayz - and at least they do offer files (more than indicated by the file counts) - I think a bigger problem is the way both BS and LW 'preference' themselves and so 'clump' the network (I NEVER!!! get anything through a BS ultrapeer) - the other issue is the short lifespan of the connection to ultrapeers - I never get a 'fix' that lasts more than a minute or two (the lineup of hosts is incredably volatile - unecessarily so I would've thought) - the upside is that the return from search results is equaly volatile but the downside of this is of course that too often listed results are outdated by the time I've scrolled down to them - whatever - my experience is still that with PATIENCE its possible to locate and download very obscure high bit rate versions of files that simply cannot be obtained otherwise (eg the 320 kb unreleased studio version of Patti Smith doing "when doves cry" that took me week to get a complete download of) - even with just a 56k modem connection it seems to me that I'm 'ending up' with dam fine files and ny major issues are not with non-sharing users but re-queries that aren't (as someone else said the message should really be changed to 'you're doomed') - ultrapeers that move too fast and BS that should be a 'best friend/partner' actually being the cousin that hates you

Cheers, bad_vlad