Posted by Bill on July 04, 2008 at 22:35 [75.62.146.160]
In Reply to: Thanks Bill posted by JamieBoy on July 04, 2008 at 11:34
Hi Jamie,
"A couple of questions, tho. In the chat section, I keep hearing guys talk about "traitors"... WTF are they??? Should I be worried?"
I haven't a clue. I haven't payed much attention to the chat lately. Maybe someone can email me with the low down on that.
"Also, I'm behind a firewall, and I followed the link to rework the ports, but, it only showed how to do it on ZoneAlarm Pro, when I'm running their free version. It does not appear that they have the same capabilites (free vs Pro), so I've not been able to open the firewall, however, people seem to be able to get my files without my intervention. How does that work??? Does opening the ports open me up to any other issues?"
As long as a few people are not firewalled, everyone will eventually get everything there is.
Non firewalled users can connect to you by way of a unique trick. When they try to connect to you, your computer simply gets a request to have you connect to them instead. It's sort of like having me tell you "hey, jimmy wants you to call him." and then your copy calls him.
"I've given control of my collection over to my wife, to do with, as she pleases. I'm hoping that by sharing these now online, you and other dl's & ab's will get a copy of my files, too. They may literally get shredded soon. Also, I hope you don't mind my renaming all of my folders with a JB in front so I could recognize my own stuff and not download it right back. I'm only d/l'ing other peoples stuff to take a quick look at the latest stuff, and then deleting it."
The easiest way to avoid downloading your own stuff is to put your stuff in it's own folder and call it "Jamie's folder". The just don't download Jamies folder. Stick with what you have already done now though.
"Also, I did notice one problem... When I ran Cleanup on my hard drive, the whole directory of my shared stuff was being deleted. Now, I've learned to move that directory to a safe place, then run cleanup, and move them back when I'm sharing again... You might wanna warn people of that, since it can cost a lot of bandwidth to up and download and then the whole thing can go away with a simple Cleanup of the hard drive to erase tracks."
This is not something that should happen. I would need details of your cleanup program to figure it out. I would also need to know where you keep the program. If it's in a temp area, that may do it.
Bill
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