aMule Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

We're back! (IN POG FORM)

Author Topic: Downloader controls or Uploader controls (nik-less users)  (Read 2510 times)

gdhsk

  • Newbie
  • Karma: 0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2
Downloader controls or Uploader controls (nik-less users)
« on: August 12, 2005, 02:41:20 AM »

One of my pet peeves are the eMule.org or eMule-project.net users (and all the other url names, etc.).  There are so many of them and they can not all be collecting and giving files to the servers.  Actually the servers have no files. LOL
Can we get an option or plugin to limit or block this really unknown or lazy users?
Yes, I like some of what they share, but that is only part of being friendly.  I share all with friends, only because I would completely use up my band width otherwise.  
The lazy nik-less users could be the copyright police or jack the staker for all I know and I like to know who I am shareing with.  As an old song went "Why can't we be friends".  I would love to be but I need a real nik, so we both know who is talking/sharing and a true friend.

Thanks for hearing me out.   8o

Keep shareing and keep it friendly.  ;)   :baby:  :rolleyes:  :D
Logged

lionel77

  • Provider of Mac builds, Forum Mod
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 4
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1107
  • Mac OS X 10.4 (Power Mac G5)
Re: Downloader controls or Uploader controls (nik-less users)
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2005, 05:58:17 AM »

Well, I'm equally annoyed about these generic, confusable nicks as you are but I think blocking them is not a very smart idea... ;)
Logged
Current aMule CVS builds for OS X can be found here.

ken

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 4
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 825
RE: Downloader controls or Uploader controls (nik-less users)
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2005, 07:01:20 AM »

Quote
Originally posted by gdhsk
One of my pet peeves are the eMule.org or eMule-project.net users (and all the other url names, etc.).  There are so many of them and they can not all be collecting and giving files to the servers.
They have exactly the same probability of sharing files as users with custom nicknames.  What makes you think that leechers or *AA-types wouldn't use nice, friendly-seeming nicknames?

Quote
Yes, I like some of what they share, but that is only part of being friendly.  I share all with friends, only because I would completely use up my band width otherwise.
I'm not sure what you mean here.

Quote
The lazy nik-less users could be the copyright police or jack the staker for all I know and I like to know who I am shareing with.
So could the users with custom nicknames.  What makes you think they could not?  Nicknames are in no way enforced.  The copyright police and jack the stalker could in fact use the same nicknames that your friends use.

Quote
As an old song went "Why can't we be friends".  I would love to be but I need a real nik, so we both know who is talking/sharing and a true friend.
There's no such thing as a "real" nickname.  Any client can enter any string they want for the nickname.  It can be a lie, it can be a copy of some other user's nickname, it can be anything.  A "real nik" in no way, shape, or form allows you to "know who is talking/sharing and a true friend".

The only thing which (hopefully) uniquely identifies clients is their user hash and their Secure Identification.  Nicknames are not used at all except for display to the human user.
Logged