Hotline

[TipYourBartender]

Tell me all you can about it.

[Rahwgwar]

Originally posted by TipYourBartender
Tell me all you can about it.

Huh? I'm lost. Excuse my stupidity if need be.

[Monyak]

I'm sorta lost on this one. Whats the question?

Or did you confuse NEW THREAD with NEW POST and by mistake ask a question that belongs to a different thread?

[zaphodiv]

See subject, He wants to know about hotline.

I just looked at it briefly. I may be mistaken but it seems to be classic client-server, not p2p at all. All file uploads and downloads go to the servers.

Quote from Collideous in this thread (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7337&highlight=hotline) which is about all the usfull info a search in this forum turns up.

Another often forgotten tool is Hotline. Set up a Hotline Server on your PC, and give your friends who will participate a copy of the client. You'll have FTP, chat and newsgroup features all in one tool. The company is no longer around, but you can still get the server and client from many freeware sites.

Quote from alt.internet.p2p (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=fc091eccb760568a&rnum=1)
Hotline is were it all started.. b4 Npster Kazza or whatever...
Still going strong after 8 years or so and no media mention which is the way
it should be...
check out www.tracker-tracker.com for info or www.bigredh.com for the
offical webpage.
Jump aboard a proper trading community!

Emphasis on trading.

[Dior]

Its what we used before napster. It was a pain to get anything unless you knew who ran the server. Almost everything was passworded and to get the passwords you had to signup with some ad sites/sex crap and look for like the 10th word 2nd line, and it didnt work half the time. Or you could upload a file they wanted/didnt have to get acess. Had alot of mac users too.

http://www.tracker-tracker.com/

Thats what was used to find servers with the files you wanted that weren't passworded/had guest downloading.


I thought it was dead...