Well those are not my opinions, but my experiences on the Gnutella field. Fits very well with theory if you ask me. It wouldn't take much % of P2P users with your opinion to kill the efficienty of some networks jlh ;)

Boy you to have been going at it for a long time. With the new LimeWire versions there is a way to effectively block shareaza users. But it pretty much blocks allot of others from connecting to you also. But in many hours of test actually days of test not one single shareaza client even showed up in my Q mostly LimeWire and a occasional bearshare.
But I do believe that this method of blocking would also hurt the Gnutella net especially those who are not running the most current versions of LimeWire. But if I found this method I am sure it will not be long before others figure it out and probably start implementing it.
At that point this discussion will become a mute point because there are allot of people who quite frankly believe shareaza users to be leaches and would love to be able to block them even if it hurt their own network.

Shareaza is effectively already forced out of the LimeWire subnet. As soon as the BearShare subnet starts shrinking (since BearShare stopped development), Shareaza will mostly be forced off the network.

Thanks god that neither trap jaw nor et voilà have anything to do with programming a p2p-client:) .

I have found a small number of Shreaza hosts who have supplied me with files not found elsewhere and I thank them!

The downlads are generally very slow and some slower than that :) though not all. and my signature sums up the waiting time, but hey it was worth it.

Limewire 4.9.23

I shan't enter into the bickering too technical for me :)

..........BTW can any one explain why I get lots of Bearshare and a few Shareaza hosts trying to downoad files off me that I have never had!???? "File not found" is the message..

Well you sure are a troll... Trap_jaw is really good programmer and intergrated many useful features into LW, but I'm sure you know that TROLL.

Next time you are banned. I have no time to play with someone such as you.

I do not know if it is the same with BearShare and Shareza but with WinMx it would remember source IPs for files. I have always reserved 80gb to share and I will move older files out and replace them with new ones. I use to see the file not found message allot when people were searching for files I had removed. But since you never had the files it probably doesn't apply to you unless the files in question match in size to something you have removed from your share file then it may be possible but I am not sure about that.