As much as I hate to contribute to a silly flamewar waged against me, I do have something useful and insightful to contribute to this thread (which will hopefully die today):

If, as you state, MusicCity never intended to fsck the OpenNap community, then open your specification and allow other clients to use the same protocol so we will have our community again. You have succeeded in fragmenting our users and our networks. Now, give back what we gave to you -- the community, and you can continue to profit through your client and our (I include myself and your adminstrators in "our" there) hard work.

That isnt asking too much. If it is, as you say, pure p2p <!- yeah fucking right it is... a simple netstat will show you that their client is connecting to a group of _servers_ not a group of _clients_. these people are liars. ->, then it is a new specification and I think you owe it to the community to allow others to use it. That was the idea that got all of us together. WinMX, AudioGnome, TekNap, my client/modules, and so on. All of us. One specification, many users. Open specifications breed many clients and many clients means many consumers (and ad click-thrus if you like)...

I sincerely hope you will do The Right Thing.

alex j. avriette
brother dep
known as devnull and deprecated in the nap communities

the source shall set you free.

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