please read the entire bearshare forum thread carefully.

the bearshare acting as the source and victim of limewire's infinite retries (my machine) DOES NOT have the file size bug, and even if it possibly did, it wouldn't show up because i don't modify my files. SOME OTHER bearshare/shareaza source has lied to limewire, and limewire is using that incorrect value when trying to download from me.

i care a whole hell of a lot when you occupy my upload slots FOREVER with the SAME REQUEST that CANNOT BE SATISFIED BY ME AS A SOURCE because MY COPY OF THE FILE ISN'T AS LONG AS SOME OTHER SOURCE (and thus limewire) BELIEVES IT IS.

fix the infinite loop problem - that's a limewire bug that cannot be explained away as a bug in some other client. think of it as a lesson in error handling.

look into clipping requests to match THAT SOURCE'S file size, so you are ROBUST and won't be affected by other clients' bugs.

what's so hard to grasp here?