Thread: OpenNap P2P File Sharing Returns

Just so there is no confusion (if there were to be any), while they are stopping work on their project, OpenNap is not shut down, lol. Numerous OpenNap servers still run daily, in fact, mine runs itself absolutely perfect. Edit: Let me correct this, it's a SlavaNap server.

glad to hear it, and welcome to slyck, drogoh

drogoh wrote: Since the "new" project admin deleted the project completely, I took it upon myself to work to restore the original project code. I've been able to unearth some of the old files, but the mailing lists, bug tracker and many of the older source files may be lost for good. My intention is to recover what I can so that it is available for historic purposes. You may be able to 'nose' out those old...

so obviously I was missing something... Thought it was odd that an empty SF project could get 595,266 downloads... Thanks Fred

My SLAVAnap server runs perfectly too.

Operations like this usually go this way. A p2p client is returned from the dead. but it's infected with riaa restriction Old users of the system see this name and go... wow a new version of my old favorite program. The old user trys the old program and find's that it does not work as it should. They can't seem to find or download anything...Worse yet they may get directed to some type of Pay interface. I'm talking about...

Since the "new" project admin deleted the project completely, I took it upon myself to work to restore the original project code. I've been able to unearth some of the old files, but the mailing lists, bug tracker and many of the older source files may be lost for good. My intention is to recover what I can so that it is available for historic purposes.

First and foremost i wish to respond to those who are asking about OpenNap. Yes, OpenNap was a project abandoned long ago. It was sitting in the Sourceforge Archives for over eight years and up until 2004/2005, none of its listservers were updated. I took over that project in an attempt to revive it and to improve it. I have been a member of Sourceforge since 2003 and privately have been working on OpenNap since its initial development. The...