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Re: Network Sizing Guidelines?

  • From: Scott Francis
  • Date: Fri Mar 02 19:43:58 2001

Curtis Maurand wrote:
> 
> It doesn't matter Napster is about to be dead and all those people will go
> back to using IRC to trade music.
> 
> Curtis

I originally wrote:

> > assuming, of course, that the data entry clerks haven't found a
> > collection of good napster buddies ... :)

s/napster/<INSERT P2P FILE SHARING CLIENT HERE>/

Freenet, Gnutella, Aimster ... napster is merely the poster child for a
new generation of file sharing clients and protocols. Pandora has
already opened the box, regardless of Napster's ultimate fate.

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