So now we have shitty programmers implimenting a incomplete spec of a shitty and unmanageable protocol, all the while saying it isn't a tool for piracy while they are downloading mp3, porn, and DVDs. Makes me proud to share the network with them. :-P
My favorite quote from this discussion has got to be in a message from William Crim:
There's a big Gnutella discussion going on at discuss.userland.com. And (unfortunately) under a seperate thread, a discussion on the ethical issues with Gnutella.
Random thoughts: Remember copy-protection on software? Will Gnutella and the like, making "piracy" a matter of opening a program and typing in the name of the desired software, rather then a 30-60 minute hunt on the web for a working FTP site, bring back the days of black print on dark wine red paper?
Me, I'd like a little Jefferson... 
But unfortunately I just made that one up, it's not a Zeldman... and it seems to violate the Zeldman principle, which I won't try to articulate.
In the Zeldman race, Privacy Digest grabbed the only decent icon IMHO: 
Nice grab.
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Misc: I've started removing the intermediate pages that Manila defaults to. You can log on from any page and log off from any page without going to an intermediate. Now I'm pushing that one step further: You can reply to my posts directly on the news pages. You'll need to be logged in, and you automatically get a title Re: [today's date]. If you read the backissues, you can reply to those and you'll get the correct title too. It's worth a try.
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