http://mitglied.lycos.de/mdsgeist/LimeWire.zip

LimeWire version with the added ability to block gnutella connections to certain vendors.

If you don't want to connect to Morpheus anymore, this will solve your problems, because it has an option to disallow certain vendors from creating to you by allowing you to specify strings that will be matched against any servents user agent.

Thank you fo the fix. I am getting tired of manually removing Morpheus connections, but with LW 2.5.3 it seems that is the only way to get a good number of hosts. Unfortunately for me, I suspect this .zip file contains a LimeWire.exe, and I need an OS X version. Please try to get this into the general distribution soon!

Do you have a patch for that modification? I really would love to put that into my build.

The patch....

oh and I believe you will also need the MessagesBundle.properties.

The file should actually work on Windows and Linux without any changes, since it's a regular zip package containing java packages and the scripts to start LimeWire on Windows and Linux. - Unfortunately I'm not familiar with MacOS X at all, but overwriting an existing LimeWire installation with the files in the packages should allow you to use my version on MacOS X.

Thanks! I have got it and I am looking at it right now...

is there any way to guage a well-connected ultrapeer by messages in/out or bandwidth?

no, not really, - LimeWire ultrapeers for example impose a bandwidth limit of 15k/s on outgoing messaging traffic, so you won't be able to tell any difference between most ultrapeers. The rest of the ultrapeers are likely to be dropped automatically.

Over the next few months results will become better, since the major clients are going to implement upload queues and partial file sharing (in a much more sophisticated way then eDonkey does). The upload queues will probably reduce the amount of requeries sent substantially (indirectly increasing your search horizon) and the partial file sharing is going to increase the availability, especially of large files.

Sadly, we will have to wait at least three or four months until those new features will be available throught the gnutella network. It is true that Shareaza already implemented those two and Gnucleus is already testing partial file sharing, but as far as LimeWire, BearShare and Morpheus are concerned (those clients make up for the vast majority of nodes) they are not yet working on that.