Talk:EDonkey network

message: Somebody must have had an unfortunately editing job.. Because major sections of the article was labeled "DONT BUY" others were deleted.. I’ve restored the page using the history functionAza 09:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: recovered the page

message: This article needs a lot of expansion.
For example, look at the bittorent page - much more detailed.
Most of this article was cut/pasted by me from EDonkey2000 article in order to separate 2 different subjects - network eDonkey2000 and program eDonkey2000.eDonkey2000 - is now an article only about program/client. Vorash 10:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In any case, "network" should be lowercase. -- Viajero | Talk 10:50, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What is meant by "The guy was arrested."? Is this just a hanger-on sentence from a previous version of this article? 198.60.159.10 19:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This article needs a lot of expansion.

message: Someone added some stuff about Metamachine getting a c&d letter, and about them throwing the towel in the ring. I removed those paraghraphs here, and pasted them in the article about the eDonkey client. EDonkey clients make up a majority of the total clients on the ed2k network (eMule being the least popular one), and if they get dropped, the network users would be in turmoil. This fact could be noted in this article too, but in a way that makes clear that this is the major client that would  be getting stopped, maybe with the outcome of the whole network going down.
Maybe I should get an account, so I can immediately see if misguided people post stuff like that in a P2P related article...
edit: got myself an account, so now I can do this: --Jonne 22:30, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  confusion about eDonkey client vs. network 

message: The article contained a blatant two sentence advertisement for eMugle.com. I'm surprised no one has caught it before. I removed the advertisement, but left the link since the site is somewhat useful. I wonder if perhaps it should be removed completely? —Kn0wItAll 10:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You removed the information and left a link. The fact that there are index sites out there is more important than then the actual link.  That is exactly why i left it that way. maybe the old text you removed should be moved to the Ed2k:_URI_scheme article instead and linked form this article. :Leuk he 12:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I did not remove the stuff about there being index sites, only the description of eMugle which was an ad. —Kn0wItAll 22:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: eMugle advertisment

message: The behavior of fake servers can easily be verified by running an ed2k client and doing some searching on them. the emule forum has pleay of examples of this.  However who owns them and the exact reasons could use some citations. :Leuk he 10:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fake servers 

message: Why is this warning here? Every site logs visiting IPs.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.110.218.195 (talk) 21:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good way to scare people and make them believe that they are being watched. Nearly all closed pirate sites tell visitors that they will be caught and punished, but this is only a bluff. 85.181.119.213 (talk) 23:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "edonkey2000" site warning? 

message: How does the software know what value to check against for the chunk hash? The ed2k links don't appear to contain anything other than the master hash. Ham Pastrami (talk) 07:18, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chunk hashes 

message: In History it states that "The original eDonkey network relied on central servers run by users willing to donate the necessary bandwidth and processing/disk usage overhead. Such servers could be subject to heavy traffic and, consequently, more vulnerable to attacks.
To overcome this problem, MetaMachine, the developer of the original eDonkey client, developed Overnet as a successor to the eDonkey protocol..." 
That's not quite right.
As I remember it, Jed McCaleb (Swamp) programmed Overnet purely to get around scalability problems. The original dserver eDonkey used had a hard limit of 50,000 users per server (a problem lugdunummaster later solved in eserver). The Kademlia protocol Overnet was based on allowed Jed to by-pass this problem, allowing for no limits on the amount of users, plus also for a true peer-to-peer network without any servers to act as middle men.
Unfortunately I'm not sure how I could verify this for WikiPedia. 
I used to moderate the Help section of the eDonkey forum and this was discussed in the forum, but that's long gone and no forum back ups were ever made available. Piagi9 (talk) 17:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  eD2k History 

message: As it has been over 2 years since the Cleanup-article template was put up, and over a year since anything was discussed here on the talk page, maybe it's time to review the need for the template and if not needed remove it.
If there is some work to be done, maybe someone can give a more specific idea of what needs to be done. Tamir 09:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead needs to be smaller, and in general comply with WP:LEAD.    M   18:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The [[Template:Cleanup-article|Cleanup Template]] 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Because eDonkey network has been widely used by P2P users, WikiProjects Computer and Internet should no longer rate it as low-importance.--RekishiEJ (talk) 06:38, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is not of low importance