Actually, most of my users (the ones that ask all the questions anyways) have reported a better download experience.

Although the reported number of download candidates seems to have decreased, it appears the ones that are not filtered out are providing better downloads (so obviously the blocked IPs weren't good ones anyways).

I just wanted an accurate answer to the question "why am I seeing fewer download candidates?".

I know that more IP's are being filtered out, I just needed to know where the "list" of IP's to filter came from.

Thanks for the prompt responses to my posts.