Re: [TCLUG:14628] RE: Napster

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> If Napster uses a standard set of ports for client-client communication, my
> vote for the best way of dealing with it is to throttle bandwidth on that

Thats the issue.  Napster file xfers are set up to be incoming port
openings.  Not something you can eaisly rate down without some other
logic.

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