Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Uploads seriously declining

2007-03-04 Thread Christian Biere
Haxe wrote: > > As LimeWire did not support > > any IP address block lists until a few weeks ago a lot of traffic was > > wasted for spam. > Does this mean that this will get a bit better in the future? For a moment certainly but in the long run spammers might improve and hide their addresses so

Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Uploads seriously declining

2007-03-04 Thread Haxe
First, thanks for the thorough answer :-) On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:29, Christian Biere wrote: > I my opinion, spam et al. is responsible for most of the problems. Oh, good point. I didn't even think of that. > As LimeWire did not support > any IP address block lists until a few weeks ago a lot

Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Uploads seriously declining

2007-03-04 Thread Haxe
On Sunday 04 March 2007 12:59, Andrew Benton wrote: > What I do is open ~/.gtk-gnutella/ultras in a text editor, search for > lines which end with :6346 (or 6348 - they're usually Bearshare) and > then copy those addresses into the Add box on the GnutellaNet pane of > Gtk-Gnutella. It takes a while

Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Uploads seriously declining

2007-03-04 Thread Christian Biere
Haxe wrote: > Over the recent months (possibly even a year or so), I have seen my > upload volume declining from what was once a high load to a mere > dribble. I consider this a real problem, because I really like to share > my files to the net, to give back value to the gnutella network. If >

Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Uploads seriously declining

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Benton
Haxe wrote: > Even if BearShare ultrapeers are no longer > listed in the bootstrapping databases, shouldn't they appear in my > cache after some network use? My guess is that Limewire ultras don't connect to Bearshare so when you ping them, they tell you the ultras they're connected to, so you d