[Mldonkey-users] Re: FAQ, Patches, Stalled-Forever Downloads, Slowness, Settings

[Sven Hartge]

lenny bruce <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 08:42  PM, Martin wrote:

>> sum(network_upload) == sum (network_download)
> 
> I keep seeing this...
> I assume it means you can only upload what you download

No, this means: The bytes you are downloading have to be uploaded
somewhere else. So, if everybody just leeches, the network will die,
because nobody shares anything.
 
>> So you cant lose them by deleting some files on your harddisk...  But
>> finally yes: if you also remove you downloads.ini your client_md4
>> will be lost and a new one will be created...then nobody will
>> recognize you as the guy uploading so much...and your credits are
>> lost.
> 
> that wasn't clear... and it sort of still isn't.
> 
> I thought it was generating the client md4 to indicate what version we
> had (because patches and other things make for probably 20 possible
> versions)
 
No, the MD4 does not depend on version or whatever, it should be
constant for the whole life of your client.

S°

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