honestly.. I don't think people should worry too much about "leechers" ..
the term really had it's ground roots in the warez world where people essentally stole posts from one place and posted it at another (kinda stealing),, nowadays.. it's really considered more sharing.. look.. each of us might have skills that another may not have. I look at things as that information / knowledge should be freely shared. If you want to boost membership participation, there are other ways to encourage that participation rather than generating bad vibes. sure.. (as mentioned in another thread) we could have another section that only certain members could view.. I don't oppose that at all.. but the key thing is that information (some) should be freely shared and that the post person should learn to have good feelings about that fact that they helped out.. regardless of not getting a "thank you".. we don't need to be into power tripping.. I believe in the karmic circle.. what goes around , comes around..

now asmithz brought up a good point.. it wouldn't hurt to have a few tutorials on how things get done..

and bling dogg01 brought up a point that I'd like to discuss further as I do know that port scanning is not a good thing as far as isp's go.. and isn't scanning for proxies pretty much the same thing as port scanning ?

I will come out with this.. I know it's not fast/great or anything but..
I was once a "dunner" .. had access to backdoor dialup accounts, made free dialup accounts bypassing the free isp's software.. disposable accounts.. I don't think I can share this information openly.. but I'd be willing to help out anyone that would like to investigate it.. by pm.. if it's ok with Insomniac.

this unfortunately is for USA residents only.. as the isps are USA ones..