Sooner or later they are gonna have to admit that the hosts file (WHICH WAS MY IDEA FROM THE BEGINNING THAT THEY FIRST SAID WOULDN'T WORK BUT NOW TRY TO SELL AS THE GREATEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD) was never a good idea for a permanent solution.
It was ok for a quick "get us connected" fix, but was not EVER intended to be a long term idea. When I first suggested it, I was talking about a few weeks at most, just until something serious could be developed.
First it was "That won't work." from Sabre. Then after a few minutes of others suggesting impossible or downright ignorant ideas, a few people said they agreed with what I said, and then Sabre decided to work with it.
It was not much longer before they all started talking about installers (like you couldn't tell someone to cut and paste a couple lines in a text file) and then started working on a ridiculous heirarchy of a busines model. (Yes, including a marketing arm!) That was where I started thinking they had all gone batty and decided they didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Then I watched several people come in offering to help and were completely crapped on. People volunteered to host a peer cache or to offer a site for people to get the patch from. And what did this "team of professionals with nothing but love for the community" do? Made fun of these people. Ragged on them until they left upset and confused. Some were told to shut up as soon as they entered the room. And of course April was there telling everyone how great of a delphi programmer she was and how worthless the ones offeing resoures were. Many others joined in like a feeding frenzy. Pathetic.
That is when I decided they could all screw off. If they didn't care about the users, I wouldn't have anything to do with them.
Now, this idea I had for a simple quick fix is "The only patch you will ever need! Act now and get 4 free steak knives!"
Freaking losers. They are living on borrowed time with the entire ordeal. Silly little connection hijack idea, absolutely no way to make it do anything else, and the claims that they will be able to add filtering or flood blocking means one of two things:
1) They are lying which would be consistant with their history.
2) They are going to have to find a real programmer to develop something like the .dll which they have claimed is 'secretive, untrustable, and the work of Satan.'
So, either way, they suck. They just suck so bad, that they will never admit it.
Best Regards and Be Good!
Scyre