Let's see a show of hands. How many people here either use, or have used, or are thinking about using *any* P2P system for obtaining software they can't (or don't want to) afford? [counting.....] 567, 568, 569, 1006, 2793, 4932, 13,652 ...... WOW ! (That's just what I thought). No need to mention any names. -- mgb --

Just a question about these P2P applications. Is there any way to totally block out all the porn and stuff. I mean I have nothing against guy's who share adult material (every man to his own) but some of the stuff it produces just by typing relativley innocent keywords just sickens me. I have found the GNutella network especially bad for this! Thanks

Slickster; I have found that the newest version of WinMX (3.31) contains NO ads. I have not received a one. (That I can recall). The system works like a charm, sets up easily, and you won't see any pretty-girl popups waving their private parts at you. :-) .ogg; .mp3; .avi; .mpg; .zip; .exe; they've got it all. Including stuff you are unlikely to find anywhere else. As always, user-beware - use a virus-checker on .exe files. -- Mike --

Please remove all references to shareaza and gnutella2. Im not sure if you are aware of the controversy surrounding shareaza and its use of the gnutella name. Mike, the developer of shareaza basically made his own proprietary network protocol and called it gnutella2. Of course this really pissed off all of the gnutella developers because he made his own protocol (which is fine by itself) then used a community owned name to promote his protocol over all the others clients. He and his users then went around spamming the net with how great gnutella2 was and that gnutella was crap. He has made quite a few claims about his protocol but given the limited size of the shareaza network you cant really tell if his protocol will be able to handle a larger size.