[Clients that fetch torrents sequentially from the start - happening!]

Thanks, Switeck. Giving v low pri/choking is essentially what I meant.

BTW, a "Transmission" client is on one of my peer lists again, it's one of the offenders, and it's version is shown as 0.72Z (letter 'Z').

Since you're a moderator, I'll leave it to you to pass on the message to the uT programming team.

(Later) I Googled for Transmission, and came up with pay dirt in a transmission.m0k.org forum article, where member Charles Kerr, one of the program's developers, states his piece-fetching priorities.

See http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1950&highlight=first

If the article is no longer online when/if you need it, I have kept a copy.

[Clients that fetch torrents sequentially from the start - happening!]

See my post just now in "Index » Feature Requests » Prioritizing first/last pieces - enhancements".

The "Transmission" client seems to be downloading torrents sequentially from the start. I'm a BT newbie, but I suspect that it's violating protocol.

Should the protocol state that clients should ban other clients that are detected doing that?