Here is another article about Gnutella and "the problem with P2P": http://dss.clip2.com/gnutella.html A few months back we discussed centralization vs. decentralization (P2P) for Piper and have considered Napster and Gnutella, respectively, as models of each. I think we reached a general concensus (at least among the founders of the Piper project) that decentralization was the way to go. So, it is interesting to read about some of the "problems" with Gnutella. Is the discussion moot? And, as usual, there are SOME good comments about this on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/22/1432219.shtml Cheers. Jeff